nones

noun

1. (capitalized, historical, often)The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months.

   “The third day before the nones of March is March 5th; the third nones of August is August 3rd; and the third of the nones of November is November 3rd.”

   “Þa monðas þe habbað iiii nonas æfter kalendas... habbað to idus xiii dagas and to ii kalendas eahtatyne. Those months that have 4 nones after the kalends... have 13 days to the ides and eighteen to the second kalends.”

   “Þe caniculer dayes biginnyth in þe fiftenþe kalendis of august and endiþ in þe nonis of septembris, and so þey ben euene fifty as it is seide þere. The canicular days begin on the fifteenth kalends of August [i.e., July 18th] and end on the nones [i.e., 5th] of September, and so they are even fifty as it is said there.”

   “The Roman Month its several days divides By reckoning backwards, Calends, Nones, and Ides.”

2. (capitalized, historical, sometimes)The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).

   “...the same Liturgy of prayers be used both at Nones and Vespers. [With the note:] Nones was what we call three o'clock in the afternoon.”

   “From noon till nones The brethren sate.”

3. The divine office appointed to the hour.

   “The Greek monks always listen to their reader recite Psalms 83, 84, and 85 from the Septuagint at nones.”

4. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of noon: the sixth hour after dawn; midday (12 pm).
5. (obsolete)Synonym of lunch: a meal eaten around noon.

   “I... ouer-seye me at my sopere and some tyme at nones.”

6. (alt-of, alternative, plural)Alternative form of Nones: atheists or those without religious affiliation.

   “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.”

7. (plural)Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.

   “The second is the “Nones” proper, those who in response to the question “What is your religious tradition, if any?” answer “None.” […] Even among the “Nones” only a small minority identify as atheist or agnostic. In fact, the vast majority of “Nones” claim beliefs and attitudes more like than unlike those of persons inside churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques.”

   “The mobility of American society has done little or nothing to erode strong regional religious cultures such as those of the Catholics of the Northeast, the Lutherans of the Upper Midwest, the Baptists of the South and the “Nones” of the Pacific Northwest.”

   “He also found that the sons and daughters of two parents who have no religious preference (Nones) tend to become Nones.”

   “Suppose that we administered a scale that measures support for capital punishment at the interval-ratio level to a randomly selected sample that includes Protestants, Catholics, Jews, people with no religious affiliation (“Nones”), and people from other religions (“Others”). […] Are Protestants significantly more supportive than Catholics or Jews? How do people with no religious affiliation compare to other people?”

   “For example, in a 2008 report called American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population released by the respected ARIS (American Religious Identification Survey), one reads that “the Nones increased from 8.1 percent of the U.S. adult population in 1990 to 15 percent in 2008 and from 14 to 34 million adults. ...””

8. A dialect of Italian spoken in parts of Trentino around the Non Valley.