NEVER AGAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does never again mean? 

• NEVER AGAIN (adverb)
  The adverb NEVER AGAIN has 1 sense:

1. at no time hereafter

  Familiarity information: NEVER AGAIN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEVER AGAIN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At no time hereafter

Synonyms:

never again; nevermore

Context example:

Quoth the raven, nevermore!

 Context examples 

“You can make the most of it this time, for never again shall you have my Jack—not if you were to go on your knees for him.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will never again come to your side: I am torn away now, and cannot return.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Bates should never again—no, never!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The gulf was never again so wide.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Despondency rarely visited my heart; a high destiny seemed to bear me on, until I fell, never, never again to rise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He would go away into the heart of the wilderness, and never again appear in civilization.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He looked so earnest over it that I shall never again think that a man must be playful always, and never earnest, because he is merry at times.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One thing I was beginning to feel, and that was that I could never again be quite the same man I had been.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As his bride could not bear the sight of us, he called us all to him in the forest after he had married her and ordered us always to keep where she could never again set eyes on a Winged Monkey, which we were glad to do, for we were all afraid of her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)