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Old English · adverb

nateshwon

Part of speech
adverb
IPA
/ˈnɑː.tes.xwoːn/
[ˈnɑː.tes.ʍoːn]
Syllables
ˈnɑː · tes · xwoːn (3 syllables)

Meaning

  1. not at all, by no means

  2. not in any way,

    ...ac ðāðā hē geseah þæt hē nāteshwōn hine ġebīgan ne mihte, þā cwæð hē tō his underðeoddum,...

    ...but when he saw that he could not in any way incline him, he said to those under him,...

    c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement The Martyr"
  3. in no wise

    ...Ēalā þū Bethleem, Iudeisc land, ne eart ðū nāteshwōn wacost burga on Iudeiscum ealdrum...Ah thou Bethlehem, Judæan land, thou art in no wise meanest of cities among the Jewish princes...

    c. 992, Ælfric, "The Navitivity of the Innocents"
  4. on no account

    Ðā ōðre werod, þe him mid wuniað, brūcað þǣre incundan embwlātunge his godcundnysse, swā þæt hī nāteshwōn fram his andweardnysse āsende ne ġewitað.

    The other hosts, that dwell with him, enjoy the closest contemplation of his Godhead, so that they on no account, sent forth, withdraw from his presence.

    c. 992, Ælfric, "The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost"
  5. in the least

    Gif ðonne sē ofspring rihtwīs bið, þonne leofað he on his rihtwīsnysse, and nāteshwōn his yldrena synna ne āberð.

    If they imitate them in evil. But if the offspring are righteous, then will they live in their righteousness, and will not in the least bear their parents' sins..

    c. 992, Ælfric, "The Epiphany of The Lord"
  6. nothing

    Sē ðe mid ġehywedre hāliġnysse him sylfum teolað on Godes ġelaðunge, and nāteshwōn ne carað ymbe Cristes teolunge, sē bið untwȳlīce mynet-cȳpa ġetalod.

    He who with assumed holiness toils for himself in God's church, and cares nothing for Christ's tillage, will undoubtedly be accounted a money-chapman.

    c. 992, Ælfric, "The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost"
  7. as an intensifier of the negative and left untranslated

    Hī ġecyrdon onġēan, and scēawodon ǣlces ælðeodiges mannes andwlitan and ġyrlan, and hi nāteshwōn, binnan tweġra daga fæce, hine ne ġemētton. They turned back, and beheld the countenance and garments of every man, and, during a space of two days, they did not find him. Þā ðæs on meriġen sē cyning Polimius ġesȳmde gold, and seolfor, and dē

    But the devil, which was within your temple, is bound, and cannot answer those who pray to him..

    c. 992, Ælfric, "The Passion of st. Bartholomew the Apostle"

Etymology

Likely a contraction of nā (“never”) + tō (“to”) + þæs (“of that”) + hwōn (“a small amount”), þæs being the genitive masculine/neuter singular form of sē (“the, that”) and hwōn being generally undeclined. The uncontracted phrase nā tō þæs hwōn is also attested.

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