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/dʒəst naʊ/ Listen

adverb

Just adv.

Precisely; exactly; in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated. "And having just enough, not covet more." "The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast." "To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one."

Closely; nearly; almost. "Just at the point of death."

Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late. "A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail."

Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Just now" Quotes from Famous Books

... don't like hanging white men up here, and just now President Burgers is laying out a rose-garden. I understand that kind of thing, so I go down every day and attend to the work. I was just taking a stroll when ...

— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully

... was not only that; a great shyness beset him. He had risen and removed his hat, trying (ineffectually) not to clear his throat; his every-day sense urging upon him that she was a stranger in Canaan who had lost her way—the preposterousness of any one's losing the way in Canaan not just now ...

— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington

... favourable specimen of a class, growing in numbers and importance among the younger Oxford men, a friend of Carlyle's, Frank Newman's, and others of that stamp; well read in German literature and an admirer of German intellect, but also a still deeper admirer of Dante; just now busily taking all his opinions to pieces and not beginning to put them together again; but so earnest and good that he might be trusted to work them into something better than his friends inclined to fear. Ruskin, again, who had the year before published the memorable second volume of ...

— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley

... born until twenty-seven minutes and fifteen seconds after eleven this morning, as you would have put it,' and at the time of writing this letter this surmise of Billy's appears to be justified, for the tape in the club just now announced that the Committee has unanimously decided in favor of the gun, and adds that this is regarded as a triumph for the chairman, Admiral Sir John Pendergest, with various letters ...

— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr

... is a large one, and no doubt you will some day want to give it a thorough investigation. Just now, however, you will have to accept my statements. I will not make them technical, but strictly practical to you as a young woman desiring that knowledge which shall best fit you for the responsibilities ...

— What a Young Woman Ought to Know • Mary Wood-Allen

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