What does "none" mean?
None: Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. Ex. xvi.
Additional senses
- 2.Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought. Milton. None of their productions are extant. Blair.
- 3.No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. "They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London.
- 4.Same as Nones, 2.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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