ne
ne (nē) , adverb
[Anglo-Saxon ne. See No.]
Not; never. [Obsolete]
He never yet no villany ne said.
Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See Negative, 2.
ne , conjunction
[See Ne, adv.]
Nor. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
No niggard ne no fool.
Collocations (1)
Ne... ne , neither... nor. [Obsolete] — Chaucer