NAY
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nay (n&ā;), 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 No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no.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.
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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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&hand_; 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.
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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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&hand_; Nay in this sense may be interchanged with yea. “Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir.” Shak.
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Nay, n.; pl. Nays (&unr_;). 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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Nay, v. t. & i. To refuse. [Obs.] Holinshed.
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