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De - Pt| English Dictionary: nay | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Nay \Nay\, adv. [Icel. nei; akin to E. no. See {No}, adv.] 1. No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See {Yes}. And eke when I say [bd]ye,[b8] ne say not [bd]nay.[b8] --Chaucer. I tell you nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewisr perish. --Luke xiii. 3. And now do they thrust us out privily? nay, verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. --Acts xvi. 37. He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay. --Old Prov. Note: Before the time of Henry VIII. nay was used to answer simple questions, and no was used when the form of the question involved a negative expression; nay was the simple form, no the emphatic. --Skeat. 2. Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase. Note: Nay in this sense may be interchanged with yea. [bd]Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir.[b8] --Shak. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Nay \Nay\, n.; pl. {Nays}. 1. Denial; refusal. 2. a negative vote; one who votes in the negative. {It is no nay}, there is no denying it. [Obs.] --haucer. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Nay \Nay\, v. t. & i. To refuse. [Obs.] --Holinshed. | |
