Adverb

(-)

At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.

* 1634 , (w), (John Fletcher), , Act 2, Scene 4,

Why should I love this Gentleman? Tis odds / He never will affect me;

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}

* 1908 , (Lucy Maud Montgomery), , Chapter XXI: A New Departure in Flavorings,

"I never thought you were so fond of Mr. Phillips that you'd require two handkerchiefs to dry your tears just because he was going away," said Marilla.

* 1919 , B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, ,

Never speak of the symptoms of your patient in his presence, unless questioned by the doctor, whose orders you are always to obey implicitly .

Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.

* 1601 Novenber 30, (Elizabeth I of England), ,

There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel: I mean your love.

* 1813 , (Jane Austen), , Chapter 4,

"He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!--so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!"

* 1908 , (Lucy Maud Montgomery), , Chapter XIII: The Delights of Anticipation,

I never saw such an infatuated man.

(colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely ).

Adverb

(-)

(In) no way, (in) no manner, definitely not.

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, year=1850 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=(Thomas Carlyle) , title=(w) , chapter=The present time , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal necessity, of modern Democracy everywhere. }}

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, date= , year=1996 , month=Summer , first= , last= , author=Raymond Jarvi , coauthors= , title=Hjalmar Soderberg on August Strindberg , volume=68 , issue=3 , page=343 , magazine=Scandinavian Studies , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=His article was received with keen interest by Fredrik Vult von Steijern, the newspaper's cultural editor, who in turn paid the writer an honorarium of twenty crowns -- nowise a modest sum at that time -- despite the fact that the article never appeared in Dagens Nyheter. }}

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, date= , year=2006 , month=Fall , first= , last= , author=Nate Haken , coauthors= , title=Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba , volume=47 , issue=3 , page=410 , magazine=The Massachusetts Review , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage= I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost. }}