• Nowise

    Origin

    From no + -wise

    Full definition of nowise

    Adverb

    nowise

    1. (In) no way, (in) no manner, definitely not.
      • 1850 , Thomas Carlyle , Latter-Day Pamphlets Chapter The present time , To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal necessity, of modern Democracy everywhere.
      • 1851 , Herman Melville , Moby Dick Chapter , But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of he learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.
      • 1996 , , Raymond Jarvi , Hjalmar Soderberg on August Strindberg , His article was received with keen interest by Fredrik Vult von Steijern, the newspaper's cultural editor, who in turn paid the writer an honorarium of twenty crowns -- nowise a modest sum at that time -- despite the fact that the article never appeared in Dagens Nyheter.
      • 2006 , , Nate Haken , Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba , I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost.

    Synonyms

    • (in no way) nohow, not in any way
    © Wiktionary