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Definition of 'nowise'

English

Adverb

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  • (In) no way, (in) no manner, definitely not.
  • :* {{quote-book
  • |year=1850 |year_published= |edition= |editor= |author=(Thomas Carlyle) |title=(w) |chapter=The present time |url= |genre= |publisher= |isbn= |page= |passage=To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal necessity, of modern Democracy everywhere. }}
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  • |year=1851 |year_published= |edition= |editor= |author=Herman Melville |title=Moby Dick |chapter= |url= |genre=Fiction |publisher= |isbn= |page= |passage=But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of he learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone. }}
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  • |date= |year=1996 |month=Summer |first= |last= |author=Raymond Jarvi |coauthors= |title=Hjalmar Soderberg on August Strindberg |volume=68 |issue=3 |page=343 |magazine=Scandinavian Studies |publisher= |issn= |url= |passage=His article was received with keen interest by Fredrik Vult von Steijern, the newspaper's cultural editor, who in turn paid the writer an honorarium of twenty crowns -- nowise a modest sum at that time -- despite the fact that the article never appeared in Dagens Nyheter. }}
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  • |date= |year=2006 |month=Fall |first= |last= |author=Nate Haken |coauthors= |title=Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba |volume=47 |issue=3 |page=410 |magazine=The Massachusetts Review |publisher= |issn= |url= |passage= I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost. }}

    Synonyms

    * (in no way) nohow, not in any way