no whitadv.
/nəʊ ˈwɪt/, U.S. /ˈnoʊ ˈ(h)wɪt/ Now archaic.
Not at all; not in the least.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adverb] > not > not at all
noughteOE
nothingOE
nonewaysc1225
not a dealc1250
nothing soa1393
no-gatea1400
no-gatesa1400
no waya1400
nowaysa1400
riff no raff?a1400
in (also on, by) no kins way(s) (or wise)c1400
nowisec1425
no whitc1520
none1533
never a dysec1540
vengeance1556
in no sort1561
none ofc1571
nil1581
none1651
nowhat1651
nohow1775
du tout1824
nowt1828
nix1862
nary1895
c1520 tr. Terence Andria ii. iii, in Terens in Eng. sig. B.iiiv I must beware that my father know no whit That I haue got a chyld on Glycery.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 862/1 No whyt nere done, pas paracheué de beaucoup pres.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie ii That nowhit cared I what flie did know it.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vii. 294 His son, being no whit inferiour in valour & high courage vnto his father.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxvii. 321 They are no whitte more extraordinary, then a fawkeners manning of a hawke.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iv. i. 499 He was very much the worse man for it, but no whit the worse Painter.
1701 E. Sherburne Phaedra & Hippolytus iii. i. 183 Do these Tears move No whit thy harder Heart?
1733 B. Franklin Blackamore 30 Aug. in Writings (1987) 219 The Whites..respect them [sc. mulattoes] no Whit the more for the nearer Affinity in Colour.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii. 95 Considering the hardships of this..gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured.
1883 Harper's Mag. June 132/2 Because I was born in the snows of the mountains I am no whit whiter than those born in the purlieus of the police stations of the cities.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xv. 166 She passed him by with an icy contempt that was no whit thawed by his evident desire to appease her.
1962 Observer 27 May 28/2 Philo-semitic authors can be no whit less tedious than anti.
2000 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 26 Nov. (Review) 53 The situation faced by us today is no whit less desperate and critical than that in 1965–66.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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