nowise
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/ˈnoʊwaɪz/
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/ˈnoʊwaɪz/ · /ˈnəʊwaɪz/
Definition of nowise
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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(archaic, dialectal, not-comparable)(In) no way, (in) no manner; not at all.
“To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal necessity, of modern Democracy everywhere.”
“But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.”
“The division into paragraphs aims in nowise [translating durchaus nicht] at logical consistency :[…]”
“His article was received with keen interest by Fredrik Vult von Steijern, the newspaper's cultural editor, who in turn paid the writer an honorarium of twenty crowns — nowise a modest sum at that time — despite the fact that the article never appeared in Dagens Nyheter.”
“I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English nowyse, no-wyse, no wyse, equivalent to no (“none, not any”) + wise (“way, manner”).
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