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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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"Never" Quotes from Famous Books

... light the treasures of our antiquity that they perceived how near we were to their races in almost all things that they held dear in their life. It was then that our claims on their affection and regard were first established. As Hindus we ought never to forget the labor of scholars. We owe them our life as a nation, our freedom as a recognized society, and our position in the scale of races. It is the fashion with many to decry the labors of ...

— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... of ambition who were labouring to overthrow the Duc de Choiseul strengthened themselves by their concentration at the house of the favourite, and succeeded in their project. The bigots, who never forgave that minister the suppression of the Jesuits, and who had always been hostile to a treaty of alliance with Austria, influenced the minds of Mesdames. The Duc de La Vauguyon, the young Dauphin's governor, infected them ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... by the Assembly); other courts include an Administrative Court, customs courts, maritime courts, courts marshal, labor courts note: although the constitution provides for a separate Constitutional Court, one has never been established; in its absence the Supreme ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... nor move. Never had he found life so hard; but he was fighting with the ignoble in himself, and winning. She opened the gate, and it might have been a signal to the dogcart to stop. They both heard a dog barking, and then the ...

— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie

... birth of our child, of Patricia. I can see him now as he smiled up at me (he was ever gay) and said, 'If it's a girl, Dick, marry her to my boy.' Well! he died, and his brother took the boy, and my wife and I came over seas, and I never saw the lad from that day to this, when he comes at my invitation to ...

— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston

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