nowise, adv.
(ˈnəʊwaɪs, -z)
Forms: α. Sc. 5 na-vis, -vyse, 6 -uyse, -vyis, 5–6 -wyse, 6 -wise. β. 5 no-wyse (Sc. -wis), 7– nowise.
[f. no a. + wise n.]
In no way or manner; not at all.
| α 1375 Barbour Bruce vi. 594 Ryn eftir hym,..And let hym na-vis pas ȝow fra. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xli. (Agnes) 292 Þar bad stil amarentia, þat nawyse wald fra hyr grawe ga. 1581 Burne Disput. in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 131 The benediction..is nauyse practised in your deformet kirkis. 1598 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 173 His hienes subjectis..sall navyis pretend ony excuiss. |
| β 14.. Tundale's Vis. 296 Þei mey no wyse from me þe lede. 1487 Barbour's Bruce iv. 214 Now may I no wis forthir ga. a 1677 Barrow Serm. Wks. 1687 I. 466 There⁓by no-wise to impair or obscure..the glories of his sovereign dignity. 1735 Berkeley Free-think. Mathem. §24 Wks. 1871 III. 313 The smallness of the practical error nowise concerns it. 1761 Hume Hist. Eng. xlviii. III. 40 note, A prelate nowise complaisant to the court. 1818 Colebrooke Import. Col. Corn 154 It does nowise follow that ingenuity is unlikely to devise other means. 1884 Law Rep. 9 App. Cases 76 The exemption of the Crown..is nowise dependent upon the local or imperial character of the rate. |