Ne , conj. [See Ne, adv.]
Nor. [Obs.] Shak.
No niggard ne no fool.
Chaucer. Ne . . . ne, neither . . . nor. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Ne (?), adv. [AS. ne. See No.]
Not; never. [Obs.]
He never yet
no villany ne said.
Chaucer. &fist; 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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