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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: None \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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: None \None\, n. [F.] Same as {Nones}, 2. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: none 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"
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