"nowhile" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From no + while.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1884, Joseph Mayo, Woodbourne, Digitized edition, Baltimore Pub. Co., published 2010, page 200:",
          "text": "THE morning meal hurriedly partaken, Alloway and Carleton mounted their fleet steeds, and in nowhile gained the summit of the high hill within a mile of the port of entry, from which was a full view of the broad Potomac.",
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        {
          "ref": "1895, Henry Mills Alden, A Study of Death, Digitized edition, Harper & Brothers, published 2007, page 65:",
          "text": "FORMLESS, imageless, nowhere, nowhile, non-existent — a Void : and over against this, all that is, that ever was, and ever shall be — a Universe. Everything from nothing.",
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          "ref": "1925, John Nisbet, The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters, Volume 1, Reprint edition, W. Blackwood, published 2007, page 8:",
          "text": "When he was in serious trouble with his Norman barons and prelates, he promised to grant to men \"their woods and liberties of the chase ; but it stood nowhile\"",
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        "no time; not for any length of time"
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  "word": "nowhile"
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      "expansion": "no + while",
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  "etymology_text": "From no + while.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1884, Joseph Mayo, Woodbourne, Digitized edition, Baltimore Pub. Co., published 2010, page 200:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1895, Henry Mills Alden, A Study of Death, Digitized edition, Harper & Brothers, published 2007, page 65:",
          "text": "FORMLESS, imageless, nowhere, nowhile, non-existent — a Void : and over against this, all that is, that ever was, and ever shall be — a Universe. Everything from nothing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1925, John Nisbet, The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters, Volume 1, Reprint edition, W. Blackwood, published 2007, page 8:",
          "text": "When he was in serious trouble with his Norman barons and prelates, he promised to grant to men \"their woods and liberties of the chase ; but it stood nowhile\"",
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        "no time; not for any length of time"
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      "word": "no while"
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  "word": "nowhile"
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