nowise en · ADV
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈnoʊwaɪz/ (General-American)
- /ˈnəʊwaɪz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English nowyse, no-wyse, no wyse, equivalent to no (“none, not any”) + wise (“way, manner”).
Meanings
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(archaic, dialectal, not-comparable) (In) no way, (in) no manner; not at all.
To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal necessity, of modern Democracy everywhere.
1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The present time”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets:The division into paragraphs aims in nowise [translating durchaus nicht] at logical consistency :[…]
1904, James A. Crichton, transl., Compendious Syriac Grammar, London: Williams & Norgate, Preface to the First Edition, page XI; translation of Theodor Nöldeke, Kurzgefasste Syrische Grammatik, second edition, Leipzig, 1898:I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost.
2006 fall, Nate Haken, “Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba”, in The Massachusetts Review, volume 47, number 3, page 410:But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Heads or tails”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 445:His article was received with keen interest by Fredrik Vult von Steijern, the newspaper's cultural editor, who in turn paid the writer an honorarium of twenty crowns — nowise a modest sum at that time — despite the fact that the article never appeared in Dagens Nyheter.
1996 summer, Raymond Jarvi, “Hjalmar Söderberg on August Strindberg”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 68, number 3, page 343:
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bg по никакъв начин (in no manner) · es de ningún modo (in no manner) · ru никак (in no manner) · ka არავითარ შემთხვევაში (in no manner) · fi ei mitenkään (in no manner) · pt de forma alguma (in no manner) · fr d'aucune façon (in no manner) · de auf gar keinen Fall (in no manner) · hy ոչ մի դեպքում (in no manner) · es de ninguna manera (in no manner) · nl absoluut niet (in no manner) · io nule (in no manner) · es en absoluto (in no manner) · fi ei millään tavalla (in no manner) · ru ни при каки́х обстоя́тельствах (in no manner) · io nulamaniere (in no manner) · nl in geen geval (in no manner) · hy ոչ մի կերպ (in no manner) · pl bynajmniej (in no manner) · ro nicidecum (in no manner) · tr hiçbir biçimde (in no manner) · pl w żaden sposób (in no manner) · pl żadną miarą (in no manner)