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adverb

Nigh adv.

In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near. "He was sick, nigh unto death." "He drew not nigh unheard; the angel bright, Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned."

Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead.

preposition

Nigh prep. Near to; not remote or distant from. "was not this nigh shore?"

verb

Nigh v. t. & v. i. To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near. (Obs.)

adjective

Nigh adj. (compar. nigher; superl. nighest, or next)

Not distant or remote in place or time; near. "The loud tumult shows the battle nigh."

Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. "Nigh kinsmen." "Ye... are made nigh by the blood of Christ."

Synonyms: Near; close; adjacent; contiguous; present; neighboring.

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"Nigh" Quotes from Famous Books

... strange! Dear old place, are we so near you? Like to one that speaks in sleep, I'm talking, thinking wildly o'er this moaning, maddened deep! Much it makes me marvel, brother, that such thoughts should linger nigh Now we know what shore is hidden somewhere in that misty sky! Oh! I even fear to see it; and I've never felt so low Since we turned our faces from it, seven weary ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... did not rest content, as most persons under the same circumstances would have done, with the enthusiastic plaudits elicited by her performances, but diligently applied herself to a scientific cultivation of a voice in natural power well-nigh marvellous, as well as to acquiring a scholarly knowledge of the principles of general music. In this commendable course she met with remarkable success, considering the circumstances ...

— Music and Some Highly Musical People • James M. Trotter

... no shy young thing, and you haven't been for nigh on forty years. I wouldn't be proposin' ...

— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott

... one stage and another, hastening on, he reached that great city in the south, the metropolis of New Orleans; often, as he hoped, on the very steps of his friend, but never overtaking him, with fortune at so low an ebb that there he was well-nigh wasted in strength, hunger-stricken, and tattered in dress; driven to live in hovels till some chance restored him the little means to advance; so mean of person that his dearest friend, his nearest kinsman, even his old playfellow ...

— Chanticleer - A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family • Cornelius Mathews

... 'Wery nigh, mum.' And indeed, after scraping the dish all round with his knife and carrying the choice brown morsels to his mouth, and after taking such a scientific pull at the stone bottle that, by degrees almost imperceptible to the sight, his head went ...

— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens

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