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noun

Naught n.

Nothing. (Written also nought) "Doth Job fear God for naught?"

The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.

To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel."

adjective

Naught adj.

Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer." "Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else." "Things naught and things indifferent."

Hence, vile; base; naughty. (Obs.) "No man can be stark naught at once."

adverb

Naught adv. In no degree; not at all. "To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied."

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Etymology of 'Naught'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Naught" Quotes from Famous Books

... servant is a poor man; but he has trusted in Thee and made his boast in Thee before the sons of men; therefore let him not be confounded! Let it not be said, 'All this is enthusiasm, and therefore it is come to naught.'" ...

— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson

... discordaunt thing yfere As thus, to usen termes of phisyk; In loves termes hold of thy matere The forme alwey, and do that it be lyk; For if a peyntour wolde peynte a pyk With asses feet, and hede it as an ape, It cordeth naught; so nere it ...

— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker

... group, the representatives of universal humanity at the birth of their King, We have the whole world-problem in small, but here there is no consciousness of it. No echo of world-politics or of movements of thought break in here. But we know that here is the beginning of that which will set at naught world-politics and revolutionise movements of thought, that here is the centre about which humanity will move in the coming time. Here is that which is fundamental and abiding because here is the one invincible power of the universe—love. All else will fail: prophecies, systems ...

— Our Lady Saint Mary • J. G. H. Barry

... fact that gray clouds had been blown away. The sun shone bright upon a white-frosted land. The air was still. Carley labored at her task of rising, and brushing her hair, and pulling on her boots; and it appeared her former sufferings were as naught compared with the pangs of this morning. How she hated the cold, the bleak, denuded forest land, the emptiness, the roughness, the crudeness! If this sort of feeling grew any worse she thought she would hate ...

— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey

... the High Gods during the hours of sacrifice. The great bird swooped down, settling on the wood pyre, and attacked the sacrifice with beak and talon. My poor superior here, still strong in his faith, called loudly on our Lord the Sun to lend power to his arm, and sprang up on the altar with naught but his teeth and his bare arms for weapons. It may be that he expected a miracle—he has not spoke since, poor soul, in explanation—but all he met were blows from leathery wings, and rakings from talons which went near to disembowelling him. The ...

— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

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