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noun

Naught n.

Nothing. (Written also nought) "Doth Job fear God for naught?"

The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.

To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel."

adjective

Naught adj.

Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer." "Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else." "Things naught and things indifferent."

Hence, vile; base; naughty. (Obs.) "No man can be stark naught at once."

adverb

Naught adv. In no degree; not at all. "To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied."

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Etymology of 'Naught'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Naught" Quotes from Famous Books

... a man is the fight he makes, The grit that he daily shows: The way he stands on his feet and takes Fate's numerous bumps and blows, A coward can smile when there's naught to fear, When nothing his progress bars, But it takes a man to stand and cheer While some ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... our animals another rest, we resumed our journey across the dreary prairie. Not a tree or bush could be seen in any direction. A green carpeting of short grass was spread over the vast scene, with naught else to ...

— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat

... this sunny clime strength to the wasted brings, And the zephyr's balmy breezes come with healing on their wings; But to me the sun's rich glow is naught—the perfumed air is vain— For I know that I am dying—Oh! then, ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 • Various

... This Immanuel—God with us—awaited you in our Church, and in that sacrament which so powerfully attracted you, even when you but half believed it. In your own worship, as in the ancient synagogue, you found naught but types and shadows; they spoke to you of reality, but did not contain it; they awakened your thirst, but did not quench it; weak and empty rudiments which have no longer the right to rest, since the veil of the temple has ...

— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott

... for me. I make as yet no charges of absurdity, contenting myself for the moment with saying that no notion can be too unscientific to be adopted by those scientific men who, gratuitously running counter to the strongest possible presumption, set the science of probabilities so utterly at naught as to adopt as reality an hypothesis the chances against which are but one single iota ...

— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton

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