01 adv. No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. Opposed to aye or yea. See also Yes.
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No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. Opposed to aye or yea. See also Yes. Also: 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 likewise 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.
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Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.