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e (n[=e]), adv. [AS. ne. See {No}.]
Not; never. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
He never yet no villany ne said. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Note: Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See {Negative}, 2. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
