Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Never.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A contraction of never.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb a contraction of
never .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb poetic Contraction of
never .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb not ever; at no time in the past or future
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Examples
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How do we know it isn't a stalker who had lost his prey or some other ne'er do well?
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How do we know it isn't a stalker who had lost his prey or some other ne'er do well?
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How do we know it isn't a stalker who had lost his prey or some other ne'er do well?
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How do we know it isn't a stalker who had lost his prey or some other ne'er do well?
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You deserve to have your name associated with Jackson's, in my ne'er unbiased view, and The Red Tree in particular is the perfect candidate for such an award.
"It's as though I'm too young..." ellen_datlow 2010
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How do we know it isn't a stalker who had lost his prey or some other ne'er do well?
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The Roman Scarus comments which "Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before/Did so violate itself."
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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The Roman Scarus comments which "Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before/Did so violate itself."
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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How do we know it isn't a stalker who had lost his prey or some other ne'er do well?
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What the fans should singRule Britannia Stadium, especially with its insistence that "Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame", seems about right for a side that bows to no one.
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