nowhile

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See also: no while

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

no +‎ while

Adverb

nowhile

  1. no time; not for any length of time
    • 1884, Joseph Mayo, Woodbourne‎, Digitized edition, Baltimore Pub. Co., published 2010, page 200:
      THE morning meal hurriedly partaken, Alloway and Carleton mounted their fleet steeds, and in nowhile gained the summit of the high hill within a mile of the port of entry, from which was a full view of the broad Potomac.
    • 1895, Henry Mills Alden, A Study of Death‎, Digitized edition, Harper & Brothers, published 2007, page 65:
      FORMLESS, imageless, nowhere, nowhile, non-existent — a Void : and over against this, all that is, that ever was, and ever shall be — a Universe. Everything from nothing.
    • 1925, John Nisbet, The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters, Volume 1, Reprint edition, W. Blackwood, published 2007, page 8:
      When he was in serious trouble with his Norman barons and prelates, he promised to grant to men "their woods and liberties of the chase ; but it stood nowhile"
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