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Definition of 'nowhile'English
Alternative forms
* no while
Adverb
(head)
no time; not for any length of time
:* {{quote-book
|year=1884
|year_published=2010
|edition=Digitized
|editor=
|author=Joseph Mayo
|title=Woodbourne
|chapter=
citation
|genre=
|publisher=Baltimore Pub. Co.
|isbn=
|page=200
|passage= THE morning meal hurriedly partaken, Alloway and Carleton mounted their fleet steeds, and in nowhile gained the summit of the high hill within a mile of the port of entry, from which was a full view of the broad Potomac.
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:* {{quote-book
|year=1895
|year_published=2007
|edition=Digitized
|editor=
|author=Henry Mills Alden
|title=A Study of Death
|chapter=
citation
|genre=
|publisher=Harper & Brothers
|isbn=
|page=65
|passage=FORMLESS, imageless, nowhere, nowhile , non-existent — a Void : and over against this, all that is, that ever was, and ever shall be — a Universe. Everything from nothing.
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:* {{quote-book
|year=1925
|year_published=2007
|edition=Reprint
|editor=
|author=John Nisbet
|title=The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters, Volume 1
|chapter=
|url=
|genre=
|publisher=W. Blackwood
|isbn=
|page=8
|passage=When he was in serious trouble with his Norman barons and prelates, he promised to grant to men "their woods and liberties of the chase ; but it stood nowhile "
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