nowise
/ˈnəʊwaɪz/US/ˈnoʊwaɪz/
nowise adverb: (In) no way, (in) no manner; not at all.
Adverb
nowise (not comparable)
- (In) no way, (in) no manner; not at all.
- To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal...1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The present time”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets
- But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Heads or tails”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 445
nowise meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
nowise in Tamil
- எந்த முறையிலுமில்லாமல், எந்த வழியிலுமில்லாமல்
nowise in Urdu
- ہرگز نہیں, کسی طرح نہیں, قطعاً نہیں
nowise in Malayalam
- ഒരുവിധത്തിലും ഒരളവിലും അല്ല
Examples of nowise in a sentence
- The division into paragraphs aims in nowise [translating durchaus nicht] at logical consistency :[…]1904, James A. Crichton, transl., Compendious Syriac Grammar, London: Williams & Norgate, Preface to the First Edition, page XI...
- I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost.2006 fall, Nate Haken, “Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba”, in The Massachusetts Review, volume 47, number 3, page 410:
Synonyms of nowise
Origin of nowise
From Middle English nowyse, no-wyse, no wyse, equivalent to no (“none, not any”) + wise (“way, manner”).
Words that rhyme with nowise
Questions about nowise
- What does nowise mean?
- Nowise means (In) no way, (in) no manner; not at all.
- What is nowise in Tamil?
- Nowise in Tamil is எந்த முறையிலுமில்லாமல், எந்த வழியிலுமில்லாமல். See Nowise meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use nowise in a sentence?
- The division into paragraphs aims in nowise [translating durchaus nicht] at logical consistency :[…]
- What part of speech is nowise?
- Nowise is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce nowise?
- Nowise is pronounced /ˈnoʊwaɪz/ (US).
Words near nowise in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nowise (page history and authors); nowise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nowise (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nowise (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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