hic et nunc

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Then comes the Emperor Nicholas hic et nunc; with the Turks on the other hand, place and time and case not stated.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

However, an act may be free in causa which hic et nunc must happen; the Free Will having done that by choice which brings as a necessary consequence something else.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

But the participle has come to be used as a noun; and as such it does not necessarily imply actual existence hic et nunc.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

She is in actual danger hic et nunc, even while the surgeon is in the room examining her.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

My dear Edward," replied McNabbs, "it would be incurring too great a responsibility for me to reply hic et nunc.

From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules