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Webster 1913 Edition
ne
ne
(nē)
, adv.
[AS.
ne
. See No
.] Not; never.
[Obs.]
He never yet no villany
ne
said. Chaucer.
☞ Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See
Negative
, 2. ne
,c
onj.
[See ]
Ne
, adv.
Nor.
[Obs.]
Shak.
No niggard
ne
no fool. Chaucer.
Ne . . . ne
, neither . . . nor.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.