Meaning of None | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person without religious affiliation.
   US
2. Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.”

“Stable nones, that is, people who report in both years that they have no religious affiliation, are, in fact, much less religious”

“we have grouped people into nones (no religion), Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical protestants.”

“So the “nones” are those three groups together: atheist, agnostic, nothing in particular. That group has grown from 5 percent of America in 1972 to about 30 percent of America today.”

“None of the day, is the third quarter of the day beginning at Noon and lasting till the Sun be gone half way towards setting.”

“The last, which began at the middle of the Afternoon, i.e. at half the Time between Noon and Sun-setting, was called None, because it began at the Ninth Hour.”

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