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adverb

Never adv.

Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. "Death still draws nearer, never seeming near."

In no degree; not in the least; not. "Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the worse." "And he answered him to never a word." Note: Never is much used in composition with present participles to form adjectives, as in never-ceasing, never-dying, never-ending, never-fading, never-failing, etc., retaining its usual signification.

Never a deal, not a bit. (Obs.)

Never so, as never before; more than at any other time, or in any other circumstances; especially; particularly; now often expressed or replaced by ever so. "Ask me never so much dower and gift." "A fear of battery,... though never so well grounded, is no duress."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Never" Quotes from Famous Books

... Isis, seemed to him curious in other respects. The philosophic medley of Clair Lenoir was evident in this work which offered an unbelievable jumble of verbal and troubled observations, souvenirs of old melodramas, poniards and rope ladders—all the romanticism which Villiers de L'Isle Adam could never rejuvenate in his Elen and Morgane, forgotten pieces published by an ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... genius. The Liberator of Sicily, to be sure, did not live in an age of newspapers, and was not liable at every turn to have his elbow jogged by Public Opinion; but it is plain that his notion of a man fit to lead was, that he should be one who never waited to seize Opportunity from behind, and who knew that events become the masters of him who is slow ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861 • Various

... Levellers were, we do not think that Jacob Armitage had grounds for the fears which he expressed and felt that is to say, we believe that he might have made known the existence of the children to the Villiers family, and that they would never have been harmed by anybody. That by the burning of the mansion they might have perished in the flames, had they been in bed, as they would have been at that hour, had he not obtained intelligence of what was about to be done, is true; but that there was any danger to them on account of their ...

— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat

... American games. This may be traced to the time when Poultney Bigelow and J. A. Berrian were the Emperor's playmates. Fenimore Cooper was one of the favorite authors with the young scion of royalty. The Emperor is fond of hunting, yachting, tennis and other sports and is never so happy as when he stands on the bridge of the royal yacht Hohenzollern. He is a well known figure at Cowes and won the Queen's ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various

... marry him," began the girl. "The doctors say his nerves were wrong. I don't believe a word of it. He was full of the joy of life. He was very fond of me. He was always talking of what we should do when we were married. He never would have killed himself without some tremendously powerful motive. Even then I can't ...

— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine

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