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/prˈɛzənt tɛns/ Listen

adjective

Present adj.

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; opposed to absent. "These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you."

Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance. "I'll bring thee to the present business"

Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident. "A present recompense." "A present pardon." "An ambassador... desires a present audience."

Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit. (R.)

Favorably attentive; propitious. (Archaic) "To find a god so present to my prayer."

Present tense (Gram.), the tense or form of a verb which expresses action or being in the present time; as, I am writing, I write, or I do write.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Present tense" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tom,' returned Mr. James Harthouse, striking the ash from his cigar with his little finger. 'We are in the present tense, now.' ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... across a good deal of "acosmistic" philosophy in our survey of Christian Platonism; and the sentimental rationalist is with us in the nineteenth century; but neither of the two has any right to appeal to St. John. Fond as he is of the present tense, he will not allow us to blot from the page either "unborn to-morrow or dead yesterday." We have seen that he records the use by our Lord of the traditional language about future judgment. What is even more important, he asserts in the strongest possible manner, at ...

— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge

... bound in sole leather in camp as they were completed. After some deliberation I decided to publish this journal, with only such emendations and corrections as its hasty writing in camp necessitated. It chanced that the journal was written in the present tense, so that the first account of my trip appeared in that tense. The journal thus published was not a lengthy paper, constituting but a part of a report entitled "Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries. ...

— Canyons of the Colorado • J. W. Powell

... showing 'em the way through the Narrers to ketch the Shark!" he growled; and he kept on his way till the imperative mood present tense was tried, and then he made for the side of the cutter, to receive what was to him a regular knock-down blow, or, as he put it, a wind taking him on a ...

— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn

... her right arm behind her in her left hand—an attitude absolutely necessary to the situation—and replied: 'One is indicative mood, present tense, third person singular, verb active to say. Other is indicative mood, present tense, third person plural, verb ...

— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

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