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NE'ER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ne'er mean?
• NE'ER (adverb)
The adverb NE'ER has 1 sense:
1. not ever; at no time in the past or future
Familiarity information: NE'ER used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not ever; at no time in the past or future
Synonyms:
Context example:
I will never marry you!
Context examples
Take him for all in all, we ne'er shall—in short, make the acquaintance, probably, of anybody else possessing, at his time of life, the same legs for gaiters, and able to read the same description of print, without spectacles.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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