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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Contraction of shall not.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contraction of shall not.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper possessive noun colloq. A contraction of
shall not .
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- phrase
shall not
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Examples
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'Yes, do come right out into the old kitchen; I shan't make any stranger of you, she invited us pleasantly, after we had been properly received in the room appointed to formality.
Archive 2009-09-01 Linda 2009
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'Yes, do come right out into the old kitchen; I shan't make any stranger of you, she invited us pleasantly, after we had been properly received in the room appointed to formality.
The "Best Room" Linda 2009
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I shan't bore you with all the statistics about how many species are going extinct every day.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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(You know who you are: I shan't embarrass you further.)
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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I shan't bore you with all the statistics about how many species are going extinct every day.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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"I ain't a child," says the last, "and I shan't be a woman till I'm twenty, but I'm past eight, I am."
Sociology most Dickensian Michael Dirda 2011
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I shan't forget Rodger's face when I told him the news.
The Juniper Days - Part I Alison Earls 2011
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We shan't ever hunger again, the beard spoke as the stomach below rumbled.
The Arrival Nathaniel Tower 2012
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We shan't ever hunger again, the beard spoke as the stomach below rumbled.
The Arrival Nathaniel Tower 2011
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I shan't print the entire official response I received, but George Orwell would have loved the first paragraph, which I hereby share with my readers:
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
darqueau commented on the word shan't
"We've got so many tchotchkes
we've pratically emptied the Louvre
In most of our palaces
there's hardly room to manoeuvre
I shan't go to Bali today
I must stay home and Hoovre
up the gold dust
That doesn't mean we're in love"
the Magnetic Fields, Zebra
plenty of good word playfulness going on here.
July 23, 2008
yarb commented on the word shan't
My favourite bit is at the end: Zelda looks lonely...
July 23, 2008