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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English ynowe, strong plural and weak form of ynogh (“enough”); see enough for more.
Pronunciation
Determiner
enow
- Archaic form of enough.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, pages 83–84:How irksome, how wearying, to be doomed always to the society of those who are like people speaking different languages! It resembles travelling through the East, with a few phrases of lingua franca—just enough for the ordinary purposes of life—enow of words to communicate a want, but not to communicate a thought!
Usage notes
- While and where enow was a living part of the language, its use was often restricted to plural nouns; elsewhere enough was used.
Adverb
enow (not comparable)
- Archaic form of enough.
Etymology 2
Contraction of even now.
Adverb
enow (not comparable)
- (archaic) Just now.
- (archaic, Scotland) Soon.
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