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Definition: NEVER SO |
NEVER SO1. As never before; more than at any other time, or in any other circumstances; especially; particularly; -- now often expressed or replaced by ever so . Ask me never so much dower and gift. --Gen. xxxiv. 12. A fear of battery, . . . though never so well grounded, is no duress. --Blackstone. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: NEVER SO |
| Specialty definitions using "NEVER SO": choke fed ♦ Deaf Adder ♦ Nose. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Never So Few (1959) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. |
Henry James | The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. |
Henry Ward Beecher | Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. |
Jean Paul Richter | Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Sits he on never so high a throne, a man still sits on his bottom. |
Publilius Syrus | The next day is never so good as the day before. |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. |
Thomas Carlyle | Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. |
Thomas Fuller | Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Upon this is founded that saying, That the reigns of good princes have been always most dangerous to the liberties of their people: for when their successors, managing the government with different thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent, and make them the standard of their prerogative, as if what had been done only for the good of the people was a right in them to do, for the harm of the people, if they so pleased; it has often occasioned contest, and sometimes public disorders, before the people could recover their original right, and get that to be declared not to be prerogative, which truly was never so; since it is impossible that any body in the society should ever have a right to do the people harm; though it be very possible, and reasonable, that the people should not go about to set any bounds to the prerogative of those kings, or rulers, who themselves transgressed not the bounds of the public good: for prerogative is nothing but the power of doing public good without a rule. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bahrain | Officials have been dismissed for blatant corruption, but it is never so stated officially; no one has been tried in court for corruption. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout: "No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!" So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." Arpad Singiny |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Mary Tyler Moore | Thank God. I've been depressed from time to time, but never so much that I would seriously consider doing something else that I knew nothing about. |
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Expressions using "NEVER SO": never so much as ♦ were it never so late. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
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| Language | Translations for "NEVER SO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | bármilyen jó legyen is (be it never so good). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | evernay osay oricât de (as). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 33 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ekblhqentoV tou daimoniou elalhsen o kwfoV kai eqaumasan oi ocloi legonteV oti oudepote efanh outwV en tw israhl |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et eiecto daemone locutus est mutus et miratae sunt turbae dicentes numquam paruit sic in Israhel |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & ut-adrifene þam deofle se dumbespræc. & þa menigeo wundredon cweðende. Næfre ateowede swilc on israele folke. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne the deuel was cast out, the doumb man spak. And the puple wondride, and seide, It hath not be say thus in Israel. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And as sone as the devyll was cast oute the domme spake: And the people merveled sayinge: it was never so sene in Israel. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when the demon was cast out, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when the evil spirit had been sent out, the man had the power of talking: and they were all surprised, saying, Such a thing has never been seen in Israel. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 33 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa gikapagula na ang yawa, ang amang nakasulti; ug ang mga tawo nahibulong nga nanag-ingon, "Sukad masukad, wala pay nakita sa Israel nga sama niini." |
| Croatian | Pošto izagna ðavla, progovori njemak. Mnoštvo se èudom èudilo i govorilo: "Nikada se takvo što ne vidje u Izraelu!" |
| Danish | Og da den onde Ånd var uddreven, talte den stumme. Og Skarerne forundrede sig og sagde: "Aldrig er sådant set i Israel." |
| Dutch | En als de duivel uitgeworpen was, sprak de stomme. En de scharen verwonderden zich, zeggende: Er is nooit desgelijks in Israel gezien! |
| Finnish | Ja kun riivaaja oli ajettu ulos, niin mykkä puhui, ja kansa ihmetteli sanoen: "Tällaista ei ole Israelissa ikinä nähty". |
| French | Le démon ayant été chassé, le muet parla. Et la foule étonnée disait: Jamais pareille chose ne s`est vue en Israël. |
| German | Und da der Teufel war ausgetrieben, redete der Stumme. Und das Volk verwunderte sich und sprach: Solches ist noch nie in Israel gesehen worden. |
| Haitian Creole | Chase Jezi chase move lespri a, bèbè a pran pale. Foul moun yo te sezi anpil. Yo t'ap di: Nou poko janm wè bagay konsa nan peyi Izrayèl. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yesus mengusir roh jahat itu dan pada saat itu juga orang itu bisa berbicara lagi. Orang banyak itu heran dan berkata, "Belum pernah kami melihat kejadian serupa ini di Israel!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah dibuangkan-Nya setan itu, bertutur-tuturlah orang kelu itu. Maka heranlah orang banyak itu sambil kata-Nya, "Belum pernah kelihatan barang yang demikian itu di antara orang Israel." |
| Latvian | Kad ïaunais gars bija izdzîts, mçmais sâka runât, bet ïaudis brînîjâs, sacîdami: Nekad vçl Izraçlî nav bijusi tâda parâdîba. |
| Manx Gaelic | As tra va'n drogh-spyrryd er ny chastey, ren y balloo loayrt: as ghow yn pobble yindys, gra, Cha row rieau lheid shoh er ny akin ayns Israel. |
| Maori | A, ka oti te rewera te pei, ka whai reo te wahangu; a miharo ana te mano, ka mea, Kahore ano i kitea te penei i roto i a Iharaira. |
| Norwegian | Og da den onde ånd var drevet ut, talte den stumme. Og folket undret sig og sa: Aldri har slikt vært sett i Israel. |
| Portuguese | E, expulso o demônio, falou o mudo e as multidões se admiraram, dizendo: Nunca tal se viu em Israel. |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce a fost scos dracul din el, mutul a vorbit. Wi noroadele, mirate, ziceau: ,,Niciodatq nu s`a vqzut awa ceva kn Israel!`` |
| Shuar | Tura Jesus yajauch wakanin jiiki awemamtai nu chichachu chichakmiayi. Ashí nuna iisar ti Enentáimprarmiayi. Tura tiarmiayi "Yáunchusha Israer nunkanam jujai métek Túramu penké atsuwiti." |
| Swahili | Mara tu huyo pepo alipotolewa, mtu huyo aliyekuwa bubu akaanza kuongea tena. Watu wakashangaa na kusema, "Jambo kama hili halijapata kuonekana katika Israeli!" |
| Swedish | Och när den onde anden hade blivit utdriven, talade den dövstumme. Och folket förundrade sig och sade: "Sådant har aldrig förut varit sett i Israel." |
| Uma | Wae kanawuso-na Yesus seta to mpesuai' -i toe-e, howa' -imi-hawo mololita. Konce-ramo ntodea mpohilo to jadi' toe, ra'uli': "Uma mowo kabaraka' -nae'! Ko'ia ria hangkania tahilo to hewa Hi'a toe hi tana' to Israel!" |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-o-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: nerves, soever, venose. | |
-2 letters: ernes, erose, evens, nerve, never, neves, ovens, overs, roven, roves, senor, serve, servo, seven, sever, sneer, snore, veers, verse, verso. | |
-3 letters: eons, erne, erns, eros, even, ever, eves, neve, noes, nose, ones, ores, oven, over, rees, revs, roes, rose, rove, seen, seer, sene, sere, sone, sore, sorn, veer, vees. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-o-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: conserve, converse, eversion, overseen, oversewn, venomers. | |
+2 letters: cheverons, conserved, conserver, conserves, conveners, converges, conversed, converser, converses, conveyers, endeavors, eversions, governess, ovenwares, overlends, overmines, overspend, overspent, overtness, overtones, overweens, reconveys, reinvokes, renovates, resolvent, reversion, sovereign. | |
+3 letters: conceivers, conservers, conversely, conversers, converters, covertness, endeavours, governessy, gravestone, manoeuvres, nonviewers, observance, overcleans, overdesign, overinsure, overlearns, overseeing, oversewing, overspends, overstrewn, perversion, protensive, provenders, reconvenes, reconverts, rendezvous, resolvents, responsive, reversions, slovenlier, sovereigns, supernovae, unobserved, unresolved, venerators, ventricose, volunteers, whensoever, wolverines. | |
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