• Ne

    Origin

    From Old English ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

    Full definition of ne

    Adverb

    ne

    1. (obsolete) Not.
      • 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury TalesHe nevere yet no vilaynie ne sayde.
      • 1512, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas:And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe
        wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.
      • 1812, Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Canto I, 2:Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth,
        Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight ....

    Conjunction

    1. (obsolete) Nor.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:But to her cry they list not lenden eare,
        Ne ought the more their mightie strokes surceasse.
      • 1798, Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", ll. 443-6:The pang, the curse, with which they died,
        Had never pass'd away;
        I could not draw my een from theirs
        Ne turn them up to pray.

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