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nowise

American  
[noh-wahyz] / ˈnoʊˌwaɪz /

adverb

  1. noway.


nowise British  
/ ˈnəʊˌwaɪz /

adverb

  1. another word for noway

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of nowise

1350–1400; Middle English. See no 2, -wise


Example Sentences

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The excitement in the city relative to the Chicago calamity is in nowise abated this morning.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

The job which George Higgins Moses undertook was nowise that which his predecessor had had.

From Time Magazine Archive

Terence professed in nowise to be a patriot.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

But Lord Clare's day of triumph seemed in nowise on the wane--everything went as he wished it to go.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

And does not the whirlwind Luther, with whom I nowise compare myself, confess, in his Table-talk, that he never preached, sung, or prayed so well, as while in a rage?

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle

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