meaning of (verb stem)＋ませぬな I'm reading a manga, and in it one of the characters uses grammar that I've never seen before. The sentence is as follows: > I understand pretty much everything else in the sentence: []{} = page = find = certainly = (humbly) wanted to meet But because of this conjugation that I'm not familiar with, I'm not sure how it all fits together. What does + mean?

* indicates the negative (as in Classical Japanese) and ~ is in fact the precursor of the modern ~.

* is a variant of
(see also What nuance does "" bring? and vs in // )




Since Manga often indicate the end of a sentence by a line (or column) break, rather than a period, I would bet that the sentence is

>
>

In any case,

> = ( _modulo nuances_ )