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Definition of 'nay'English
Adverb
(-)
(archaic) no
Derived terms
* nay-say
* naysayer
Conjunction
( en-con)
or even, or more like, or should I say. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
* His face was dirty, nay filthy.
* 1663 ,
- [...] And proved not only horse, but cows, / Nay pigs, were of the elder house: / For beasts, when man was but a piece / Of earth himself, did th' earth possess.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 18.
- And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very dreams, we shall find, if we reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures,
Noun
( en-noun)
A vote against.
- I vote nay , even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.
A person who voted against.
- The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed, the nays have it.
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To refuse.
- (Holinshed)
Adjective
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