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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
never
adv
  1. not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had never seen a circus"; "never on Sunday"; "I will never marry you!"
    Synonym(s): never, ne'er
    Antonym(s): always, e'er, ever
  2. not at all; certainly not; not in any circumstances; "never fear"; "bringing up children is never easy"; "that will never do"; "what is morally wrong can never be politically right"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Never \Nev"er\, adv. [AS. n[?]fre; ne not, no + [?]fre ever.]
      1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past,
            present, or future. --Shak.
  
                     Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      2. In no degree; not in the least; not.
  
                     Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his
                     eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the
                     worse.                                                --South.
  
                     And he answered him to never a word.   --Matt. xxvii.
                                                                              14.
  
      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.
  
      {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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