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   Never , adv. [AS. nǣfre; ne not, no + ǣfre ever.]
   Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
   Shak.
   
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   Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
   Pope.
   
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   In no degree; not in the least; not.
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   Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the worse.
   South.
   
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   And he answered him to never a word.
   Matt. xxvii. 14.
   
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   ☞ 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.
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   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.
   
   
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