Definition of nay

"nay" in the noun sense

1. nay

a negative

"the nays have it"

"nay" in the adverb sense

1. nay

not this merely but also not only so but

"each of us is peculiar, nay, in a sense unique"

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Quotations for nay

Nay, her foot speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

Maids say nay, and take it. [ Proverb ]

Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for nought? [ Shakespeare ]

He'll soon be a beggar that cannot say nay. [ Proverb ]

No, let the monarch's bags and coffers hold
The flattering mighty, nay, all-mighty gold. [ John Wolcott ]

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself? [ William Shakespeare ]

There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip.
Nay, her foot speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous.
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nay, stay, quoth Stringer, when his neck was in the halter. [ Proverb ]

Much lies among us convulsively, nay, desperately, struggling to be born. [ Carlyle ]

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. [ Coke ]

There is a settled friendship, nay, a near relation and similitude, between God and good men. [ Seneca ]

Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear. Oaths are of dreadful weight! and, if they are false. Draw down damnation. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. [ Goethe ]

The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

Literature positively has other aims than this of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest or true aim. [ Carlyle ]

Every reader reads himself out of the book that he reads; nay, has he a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with the author's. [ Goethe ]

Yet even this hath this inconvenience in it - that it makes its possessor neglect the furnishing of the mind with nobleness. Nay, it oftentimes is a cause that the mind is ill. [ Feltham ]

It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather. [ Shakespeare ]

No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment. [ Carlyle ]

The widow who has been bereft of her children may seem in after years no whit less placid, no whit less serenely gladsome; nay, more gladsome than the woman whose blessings are still round her. I am amazed to see how wounds heal. [ Charles Buxton ]

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. [ Saadi ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. [ Ruskin ]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]

This is he that kiss'd away his hand in courtesy; This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice. That when he plays at tables, chides the dice in honorable terms; nay, he can sing a mean most meanly; and in ushering, mend him who can; the ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. [ William Shakespeare ]

nay in Scrabble®

The word nay is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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nay in Words With Friends™

The word nay is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words containing the sequence nay

Words that start with nay (4 words)

Words with nay in them (2 words)

Words that end with nay (2 words)

Word Growth involving nay

Shorter words in nay

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Longer words containing nay

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