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English
Adverb
nev'r (not comparable)
- (poetic, archaic) Contraction of never
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 131, column 1:Till hee fac'd the Slaue: / Which neu'r ſhooke hands, nor bad farwell to him, / […]
- (African-American Vernacular, dated) Eye dialect spelling of never.