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at the present time
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  • Þú ána nú géna (gýta,

    v. l.

    ) eart bysceop geméted,
      Bd. 1. 27; Sch. 73, 3.
in the time immediately following on the present moment, immediately
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  • Hát mé nú sillan þá hearpan, þonne wást þú nú ꝥ þú gít nást,

      Ap. Th. 16, 25.

  • Nú ic sceall geendian earmlicum deáþe,

      Hml. S. 26, 249.
in the time directly preceding the present moment
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  • Án wundor þæt ic ongæt nú for þrým nihtum

    (adhuc ante triduum),

      Gr. D. 234, 7 : 235, 19 : 232, 9.
  • Ymbe ꝥ ilce þú gyddodest nú hwéne ǽr Bt. 5, 3 ; F. 12, 7.

  • Þæt is gesewen þæt hé wæs gewiss his silfes forðfóre of þám þe wé nú secgon gehýrdon

    (ex his quae narrauimus),

      Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 492, 2: Ll. Th. ii. 348, 31.

  • Ymbe þá þing þe wé nú handledon,

      Angl. viii. 304, 24: 298, 19.

  • Hé wæs á mid Langbeardum oð nú .IV. geár

    (until four years from now),

      Gr. D. 234, 9.
with weakened temporal sense in sentences expressing a command or request
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  • And nú, cyningas, ongeotað,

      Ps. Srt. 2, 10.

  • Cleopian wé nú in eglum móde,

      Bl. H. 19, 2.
  • Gehýran wé nú for hwon se blindo leóht onfeng, 11.
used to introduce an important point in an argument, or series of statements
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  • Nú ús is gesǽd ꝥ . . . nú gif þú ǽnig þincg hæfst. . . ,

      Hml. S. 26, 256-258.

  • Nú cwæð se hálga Béda . . . ꝥ . . . ,

      272. (5 b)
    inserted parenthetically with similar force :-- Þeáh hé nú máran wilnige, hé ne mæg furðum ðæt forðbringan, Bt. 18, 3; F. 64, 23.

  • Hwí nis nú anweald tó tellanne tó sumum ðára héhstena góda ? . . . Hwæþer ꝥ nú sié tó talianne wáclic . . . ?,

      Bt. 24, 4; F. 86, 14-16.
with preposition
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  • Oð nú

    usque nunc,

      Ps. Srt. 70, 17.
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  • Nú, ic secge eów

    ecce prædixi vobis,

      Mt. 28, 7.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “nú.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/56051.

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