aught
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From Middle English aught, ought < Old English āht from ā (“‘always", "ever’”) + wiht (“‘thing", "creature’”). More at aye, wight
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aught
- anything
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 29.
- to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar ;
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 29.
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anything
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aught (plural aughts)
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aught (not comparable)
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- (archaic) At all, in any degree.
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- aught in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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From Middle English aught, ought < Old English ǣht from āgan (“‘to owe", "to own’”)
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aught (plural aughts)
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to aught (third-person singular simple present aughts, present participle aughting, simple past and past participle aughted)
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aught (comparative more aught, superlative most aught)
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- possessed of