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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nay \nay\ n=a, adv. icel. nei; akin to e. no. see no,
adv.
1. no; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request
made, now superseded by no. opposed to aye or yea.
see also yes.
1913 webster +pjc
and eke when i say "ye," ne say not "nay."
--chaucer.
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i tell you nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all
likewise perish. --luke xiii.
3.
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and now do they thrust us out privily? nay, verily;
but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
--acts xvi.
37.
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he that will not when he may,
when he would he shall have nay. --old prov.
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note: 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.
1913 webster
2. not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to
mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or
more emphatic phrase.
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note: nay in this sense may be interchanged with yea. "were
he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir." --shak.
1913 webster
see also:
no no aye yea yes
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nay \nay\, n.; pl. nays.
1. denial; refusal.
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2. a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
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it is no nay, there is no denying it. obs. --haucer.
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see also:
nays it is no nay
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nay \nay\, v. t. i.
to refuse. obs. --holinshed.
1913 webster
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
nay
n : a negative; "the nays have it" ant: yea
adv : not this merely but also; not only so but; "each of us is
peculiar, nay, in a sense unique"
see also:
yea
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
116 moby thesaurus words for "nay":
australian ballot, hare system, no, abnegation, au contraire, aye,
ballot, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, certainly not, con,
contradiction, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote,
declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial,
deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation,
disobedience, dissent, division, enfranchisement, fagot vote,
far from it, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, holding back,
indeed, interest, list system, naysaying, negation, negative,
negative answer, negative attitude, negativeness, negativism,
negativity, nein, nit, nix, no, no such thing, non, nonacceptance,
noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, nontransferable vote,
nope, not, not a bit, not a jot, not a whit, not really, not so,
nyet, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling,
preferential voting, pro, proportional representation, proxy,
quite the contrary, recantation, record vote, referendum, refusal,
rejection, representation, repudiation, retention, right to vote,
rising vote, say, secret ballot, show of hands, side, single vote,
snap vote, straw vote, suffrage, the affirmative, the negative,
thumbs-down, to the contrary, transferable vote, truly, turndown,
unwillingness, verily, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting,
voting right, withholding, write-in, write-in vote, yea,
yeas and nays, yes
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