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NAY, adv. [a contracted word, to deny]

1. No; a word that expresses negation.

I tell you nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13.

2. It expresses also refusal.

He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.

[In these senses it is now rarely used; no being substituted.]

3. Not only so; not this alone; intimating that something is to be added y way of amplification. He requested an answer; nay, he urged it.

NAY, n. Denial, refusal.

NAY, v.t. To refuse. [Not in use]



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NAY, adv. [a contracted word, to deny]

1. No; a word that expresses negation.

I tell you nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13.

2. It expresses also refusal.

He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.

[In these senses it is now rarely used; no being substituted.]

3. Not only so; not this alone; intimating that something is to be added y way of amplification. He requested an answer; nay, he urged it.

NAY, n. Denial, refusal.

NAY, v.t. To refuse. [Not in use]


NAY, adv. [a contracted word; L. nego; Sw. ney or nej, from neka, to deny; W. nac, from naca, to deny.]

  1. No; a word that expresses negation. I tell you nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke xiii.
  2. It expresses also refusal. He that will not when he may, / When he would he shall have nay. Proverb. [In those senses it is now rarely used; no being substituted.]
  3. Not only so; not this alone; intimating that something is to be added by way of amplification. He requested a answer; nay, he urged it.

NAY, n.

Denial; refusal.


NAY, v.t.

To refuse. [Not in use.]


Nay
  1. No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.

    And eke when I say "ye," ne say not "nay." Chaucer.

    I tell you nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewisr perish. Luke xiii. 3.

    And now do they thrust us out privily? nay, verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. Acts xvi. 37.

    He that will not when he may,
    When he would he shall have nay.     Old Prov.

    * Before the time of Henry VIII. nay was used to answer simple questions, and no was used when the form of the question involved a negative expression; nay was the simple form, no the emphatic. Skeat.

  2. Denial; refusal.
  3. To refuse.

    [Obs.] Holinshed.
  4. Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.

    * Nay in this sense may be interchanged with yea. "Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir." Shak.

  5. a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.

    It is no nay, there is no denying it. [Obs.] haucer.

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Nay

NAY, adverb [a contracted word, to deny]

1. No; a word that expresses negation.

I tell you nay but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3.

2. It expresses also refusal.

He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay

[In these senses it is now rarely used; no being substituted.]

3. Not only so; not this alone; intimating that something is to be added y way of amplification. He requested an answer; nay he urged it.

NAY, noun Denial, refusal.

NAY, verb transitive To refuse. [Not in use]

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