Meanings
alternative no while
- no time; not for any length of time
When he was in serious trouble with his Norman barons and prelates, he promised to grant to men "their woods and liberties of the chase ; but it stood nowhile"
1925, John Nisbet, The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters, Volume 1, Reprint edition, W. Blackwood, published 2007, page 82 more examples
THE morning meal hurriedly partaken, Alloway and Carleton mounted their fleet steeds, and in nowhile gained the summit of the high hill within a mile of the port of entry, from which was a full view of the broad Potomac.
1884, Joseph Mayo, Woodbourne, Digitized edition, Baltimore Pub. Co., published 2010, page 200FORMLESS, imageless, nowhere, nowhile, non-existent — a Void : and over against this, all that is, that ever was, and ever shall be — a Universe. Everything from nothing.
1895, Henry Mills Alden, A Study of Death, Digitized edition, Harper & Brothers, published 2007, page 65
Origin
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