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nowhile

nowhile adverb: no time; not for any length of time.

Adverb

nowhile

  1. no time; not for any length of time
    • THE morning meal hurriedly partaken, Alloway and Carleton mounted their fleet steeds, and in nowhile gained the summit of the high hill within a mile of the port of entry, from which was a full view of the broad Potomac.1884, Joseph Mayo, Woodbourne, Digitized edition, Baltimore Pub. Co., published 2010, page 200
    • FORMLESS, imageless, nowhere, nowhile, non-existent — a Void : and over against this, all that is, that ever was, and ever shall be — a Universe. Everything from nothing.1895, Henry Mills Alden, A Study of Death, Digitized edition, Harper & Brothers, published 2007, page 65

Forms of nowhile

alternative formno while

Origin of nowhile

From no + while.

Questions about nowhile

What does nowhile mean?
Nowhile means no time; not for any length of time.
What part of speech is nowhile?
Nowhile is an adverb.

Words near nowhile in the dictionary

  1. nowheres
  2. nowheresville
  3. Nowheresvilles
  4. Nowhereville
  5. Nowherevilles
  6. nowhile
  7. nowhit
  8. nowhither
  9. nowhy
  10. Nowicki
  11. Nowickis

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