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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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