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Definition of Chronon
1. a hypothetical unit of time [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronon
Literary usage of Chronon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Theological Review: Conducted by the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely (1818)
"Here he makes the chronon, or season, 1100 years. In Rev. xx. 3, we are informed,
that after the Millennium, Satan shall be loosed for a little chronon, ..."
2. A Key to Universalism by Charles Francis Rollin Shehane (1854)
"... are in the New Translation rendered thus: " before the times of the ages."
A more literal translation would be, before age-last- ing times. Pro chronon ..."
3. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"chronon-Hoton-Thol'ogos (King). ... general of his forces, for giving him hashed
pork, and saying, " Kings as great as chronon- ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"Reputed son of the great marquis of Halifax, ancestor, it seems, of Edmund Kean;
creator, in the farce-burlesque of chronon- ..."
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