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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

No

No (nō), a. [OE. no, non, the same word as E. none; cf. E. a, an. See None.] Not any; not one; none.

Let there be no strife . . . between me and thee. Gen. xiii. 8.

That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream. Byron.

☞ In Old England before a vowel the form non or noon was used. "No man." "Noon apothercary." Chaucer.

No, adv. [OE. no, na, AS. nā; ne not + ā ever. AS. ne is akin to OHG. ni, Goth. ni, Russ. ne, Ir., Gael. & W. ni, L. ne, Gr. νη (in comp.), Skr. na, and also to E. prefix un-. √ 193. See Aye, and cf. Nay, Not, Nice, Nefarious.] Nay; not; not at all; not in any respect or degree; — a word expressing negation, denial, or refusal. Before or after another negative, no is emphatic.

We do no otherwise than we are willed. Shak.

I am perplx'd and doubtful whether or no I dare accept this your congratulation. Coleridge.

There is none righteous, no, not one. Rom. iii. 10.

No! Nay, Heaven forbid. Coleridge.

No (nō), n.; pl. Noes. 1. A refusal by use of the wordd no; a denial.

2. A negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for the ayes and noes; the noes have it.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.