Meaning of NONE
| Pronunciation: | | [n]nown, nun
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- [n] a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier
- [n] a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
- [adv] 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"
- [adj] not any; "thou shalt have none other gods before me"
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| | See Also: | | divine service, hour, religious service, service, time of day | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\None\, a. & pron. [OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. n[=a]n,
fr. ne not + [=a]n 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. --Ps.
xiv. 3.
Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day,
which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
--Ex. xvi. 26.
Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought.
--Milton.
None of their productions are extant. --Blair.
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\, n. [F.]
Same as {Nones}, 2.
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