GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   ne (nē), adv. [AS. ne. See No.] Not; never. [Obs.]
   
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   He never yet no villany ne said. Chaucer.
   
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   ☞ Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See Negative, 2.
   
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   ne, conj. [See Ne, adv.] Nor. [Obs.]  Shak.
   
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   No niggard ne no fool. Chaucer.
   
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   Ne . . . ne, neither . . . nor. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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