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Definition: Never so
Never
\Nev"er\ (n[e^]v"[~e]r), adv. [AS. n[=ae]fre; ne not, no +
[=ae]fre ever.]
1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past,
present, or future. --Shak.
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Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
--Pope.
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2. In no degree; not in the least; not.
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Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his
eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the
worse. --South.
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And he answered him to never a word. --Matt. xxvii.
14.
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Note: Never is much used in composition with present
participles to form adjectives, as in never-ceasing,
never-dying, never-ending, never-fading, never-failing,
etc., retaining its usual signification.
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Never a deal, not a bit. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Never so, as never before; more than at any other time, or
in any other circumstances; especially; particularly; --
now often expressed or replaced by
ever so.
Ask me never so much dower and gift. --Gen. xxxiv.
12.
A fear of battery, . . . though never so well
grounded, is no duress. --Blackstone.
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