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adverb

Never adv.

Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. "Death still draws nearer, never seeming near."

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." "And he answered him to never a word." 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.)

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." "A fear of battery,... though never so well grounded, is no duress."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Never" Quotes from Famous Books

... the first place, the wage of a man can never fall much lower than will suffice to maintain at the minimum standard of comfort both himself and the average family he has to support. The minimum wage of the man, it is true, need not cover the full support ...

— Problems of Poverty • John A. Hobson

... minister of marine frankly, "but if the financial affairs should fall into such discredit that your Majesty finds yourself forced at last to make a change, I dare entreat you to think of the valuable man who is now left unemployed; I do beg you to reflect that, without Colbert, Louis XIV. would never perhaps have been called Louis le Grand; that the wish of the nation, to be taken into account by a good king, is secretly demanding, Sir, that the enlightened, economical, and incorruptible man whom ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... had a strain of the sardonic In her heart she never can defy the world as does a man Some wise men are fools, ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... wonderful; they juggle with a dozen different species of reptiles at the same time, making them come and go, leap, dance, and lie down at the sound of the charmer's whistle, like the gentlest of tame animals. These serpents have never been known ...

— Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism • A. Alpheus

... thus, like Antony, kissed away kingdoms and provinces, he next considered how he had revealed his higher secrets and intentions to her, an unreserve he would never have allowed himself with any man living. How was it that he had not been able to refrain from telling her of adumbrations heretofore locked in the closest ...

— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy

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