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Download JSON data for ne meaning in Middle English (4.2kB)
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"text": "He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde."
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"english": "I intend only to reduce the ancient rhyme into prose.",
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"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
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"text": "Þei ne bileveden hire nought.",
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"text": "He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde."
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"english": "I intend only to reduce the ancient rhyme into prose.",
"ref": "1481, William Caxton, Lyf of the Noble and Crysten Prynce, Charles the Grete",
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"not (negates the accompanying verb)"
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"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
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"nor (and not, or (not), not)"
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"lest (in case, before)"
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