nev'r

A form of never — At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.

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Meanings

adverbnev'r (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationarchaiccontractionnot comparablepoeticContraction of never

    Till hee fac'd the Slaue: / Which neu'r ſhooke hands, nor bad farwell to him, / […]

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 131, column 1
  2. datednot comparablepronunciation spellingAfrican-American VernacularEye dialect spelling of never.
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