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noun

No n. (pl. noes)

A refusal by use of the word no; a denial.

A negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for the ayes and noes; the noes have it.

adverb

No adv. Nay; not; not at all; not in any respect or degree; a word expressing negation, denial, or refusal. Before or after another negative, no is emphatic. "We do no otherwise than we are willed." "I am perplx'd and doubtful whether or no I dare accept this your congratulation." "There is none righteous, no, not one." "No! Nay, Heaven forbid."

adjective

No adj. Not any; not one; none; as, yes, we have no bananas; often used as a quantifier. "Let there be no strife... between me and thee." "That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream." Note: In Old England before a vowel the form non or noon was used. "No man." "Noon apothercary."

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"No" Quotes from Famous Books

... Calhoun! I was trying to test you. I was searching to find the innermost soul of you. The French fleet, my commission in the French army, and my story about the landlord are all bosh. If I meant what I told you, do you think I'd have been so mad as to tell you so much, damn it? Have you no sense, man? I wanted to find out exactly how you stood-faithful or unfaithful to the crown— and I've found out. Sit down, sit down, Calhoun, dear lad. Take your hand off your sword. Remember, these are terrible days. Everything I said about Ireland is true. What I said about France ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... Desiree had no time to think. She came of a race of women of a brighter intelligence than any women in the world. She took her father by the arm and hastened downstairs. Barlasch was at his post within the kitchen door. His eyes shone suddenly ...

— Barlasch of the Guard • H. S. Merriman

... friendly, by many acts of hospitality, and a handsome legacy; while literary men and artists, who came to speak of books and paintings, cared little for the most part about the delicacy of the entertainment, provided it were wholesome." Here he quotes at length, no very good-natured account of the dinners given by Courteney.—P. 273. Even his sister, poor Miss Reynolds, whom Johnson loved and respected, must have her share of the writer's sarcasm. "Miss Reynolds seems to have been as indifferent about the good order of her domestics, and the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various

... no signs of poison. They buried Langlois the next day in the grave that had been picked and blasted out of the solidly frozen earth of the hillside looking over ...

— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell

... striving for entrance, but he denied them. How shaken his father had been at sight of him! Poor old Dad! And then what was the significance of all that talk about his range name, Panhandle Smith, and his father's strange fascinated handling of Pan's gun? Would his mother know him at first glance? Oh! no doubt of that! But Alice would not; she had been a child; and he had ...

— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey

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