nay
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Is nay a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of nay?
Definition
adv (English)
1. (archaic or regional, otherwise humorous) No.Examples: "Duke Magnus, Duke Magnus, plight thee to me, I pray you still so freely; Say me not nay, but yes, yes!"archaicdialectalnot-comparable
2. (archaic or regional) Introducing a statement, without direct negation.Examples: "Nay, what are you smiling at so damnably?"archaicdialectalnot-comparable
3. (archaic, otherwise humorous) Or rather, or should I say; moreover (introducing a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one).Examples: "His face was dirty, nay, filthy."; "[…] And proved not only horse, but cows, / Nay pigs, were of the elder house: / For beasts, when man was but a piece / Of earth himself, did th' earth possess."; "And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very dreams, we shall find, if we reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures,"archaicnot-comparable
intj (English)
1. (archaic) No.archaic
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A denial; a refusal.Examples: "And my povert' no wight nor can nor may Make comparison, it is no nay."archaic
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To refuse.Examples: "the cardinall then being bishop of Winchester, tooke vpon him the state of cardinall, which was naied and denaied him, by the king of most noble memorie"obsolete
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Nary; not anyExamples: "'Tis easy to do this experiment, though nay substance will do: we shall need a special one."; "Nay man could have come out of such a situation unscathed."; "nay other Nations [beyond the Native American ones] seem to have continued in a State of Barbarism, as long as they continued to exercise one only of these Arts [Metallurgy and Agriculture] without the other;"not-comparableobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary