nay
Speech parts
1. nay - Noun
2. nay - Adjective
3. nay - Verb
4. nay - Adverb
5. nay - Interjection
7. Nay - Proper noun
Meaning
Denial; refusal.
No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.
a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
To refuse.
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Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay.
Transliteration: Aṇṇaṉ pēril irunta kōpattai nāy pēril āṟṟiṉāṉ.