Ne
Origin
From Old English ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Full definition of ne
Adverb
ne
- (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
- (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.