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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Never  \Nev"er\,  adv  [AS.  n?fre;  ne  not  no  +  ?fre  ever.] 
  1.  Not  ever;  not  at  any  time;  at  no  time,  whether  past, 
  present,  or  future.  --Shak. 
 
  Death  still  draws  nearer,  never  seeming  near 
  --Pope. 
 
  2.  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.  --South. 
 
  And  he  answered  him  to  never  a  word  --Matt.  xxvii. 
  14. 
 
  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.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  {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.  --Gen.  xxxiv 
  12. 
 
  A  fear  of  battery,  .  .  .  though  never  so  well 
  grounded,  is  no  duress.  --Blackstone. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  never 
  adv  1:  not  ever;  at  no  time  in  the  past  or  future;  "I  have  never 
  been  to  China";  "I  shall  never  forget  this  day";  "had 
  never  seen  a  circus";  "never  on  Sunday";  "I  will  never 
  marry  you!"  [syn:  {ne'er}]  [ant:  {always}] 
  2:  not  at  all  certainly  not  not  in  any  circumstances;  "never 
  fear";  "bringing  up  children  is  never  easy";  "that  will 
  never  do";  "what  is  morally  wrong  can  never  be  politically 
  right" 




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