"wellnigh" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} wellnigh (not comparable)
  1. Alternative spelling of well-nigh. Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: well-nigh
    Sense id: en-wellnigh-en-adv-vCqOm2b2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] Huck’s confidence in the human race was wellnigh obliterated.",
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          "ref": "1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 10, page 161:",
          "text": "Athens especially never forgave the defection which had wellnigh involved her in hopeless ruin.",
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          "ref": "1910, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], “A Hundred Thousand Heroes—A Hundred Thousand Victims”, in In the Foreign Legion, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, page 137:",
          "text": "Five years ago the officers determined to build a new mess. There was only one objection to the fulfilment of this wish: the regimental coffers were wellnigh empty.",
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