nev'r
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English[edit]
Adverb[edit]
nev'r (not comparable)
- (poetic, archaic) Contraction of never
- 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:
- Till hee fac'd the Slaue: / Which neu'r ſhooke hands, nor bad farwell to him, / […]
- (African-American Vernacular, dated) Eye dialect spelling of never.