none

[none]

Not at all or in no way

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No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.

Noun
a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier

Noun
a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise

Adjective S.
not any; "thou shalt have none other gods before me"

Adverb
not at all or in no way; "seemed none too pleased with his dinner"; "shirt looked none the worse for having been slept in"; "none too prosperous"; "the passage is none too clear"


a.
No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.

a.
No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life.

n.
Same as Nones, 2.


None

None , a. & pron. [OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. n'ben, fr. ne not + 'ben one. . See No, a. & adv., One, and cf. Non-, Null, a.] 1. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.
There is none that doeth good; no, not one.
Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought.
None of their productions are extant.
2. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. "They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London.

None

None, n. [F.] Same as Nones, 2.

No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.

Same as Nones, 2.

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Usage Examples

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house that was done many thousands of years ago.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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