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Definition of 'nowhile'

English

Alternative forms

* no while

Adverb

(head)
  • no time; not for any length of time
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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