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English
Etymology
From might + n't.
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mightn't
- (British) might not (negative auxiliary[1])
1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure, page 274:Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]
- 1963, Perry Mason, The Case of the Greek Goddess (Television Season 6, Episode 25)
- “But, mightn’t there have been something unusual about the Stimatis contract itself?”
- 1974, Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: A Novel, Harper & Row (First Rayo Edition, 2005), page 275:
- "But at night she would still think the same thing: mightn't it be that he wouldn't come to see her anymore?"
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