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Webster 1913 Edition


ne

ne

(nē)
,
adv.
[AS.
ne
. See
No
.]
Not; never.
[Obs.]
He never yet no villany
ne
said.
Chaucer.
Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See
Negative
, 2.

ne

,
c
onj.
[See
Ne
,
adv.
]
Nor.
[Obs.]
Shak.
No niggard
ne
no fool.
Chaucer.
Ne . . . ne
,
neither . . . nor.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ne

NE

, not, is obsolete. We find it in early English writers, prefixed to other words; as nill, for ne will, will not; nas, for ne has, has not; nis for ne is, is not.

Definition 2024


nẽ

nẽ

Portuguese

Adverb

nẽ (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Abbreviation of nem.