a la sazón

• IPA^(key): /a la saˈθon/ [a la saˈθõn] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /a la saˈson/ [a la saˈsõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: a la sa‧zón

a la sazón

1. (idiomatic) at that time; back then

   Synonym: en aquel entonces

   • 1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra:

     Recibirla entre aquellas paredes habría sido una grave injuria a la memoria de la finada, una especie de provocación póstuma, y aquel hombre de ideas positivas se encontraba a la sazón en un principio de desquiciamiento moral, y le pasaban por la mente ráfagas de supersticioso y pueril miedo.

     Receiving her within those walls would have been a serious insult to the memory of the deceased, a kind of posthumous provocation, and that man of positive ideas was back then in the beginning of a moral derangement, and bursts of superstitious and childish fear.

• “a la sazón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024