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Dissenting voice
Answer for the clue "Dissenting voice ", 3 letters:
nay
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Word definitions for nay in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nay \nay\ (n[=a]), adv. [Icel. nei; akin to E. no. See No , adv.] No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no . Opposed to aye or yea . See also Yes . And eke when I say ``ye,'' ne say not ``nay.'' ...
Usage examples of nay.
Nay, he decided, forcing himself to ignore the pulsing hardness between his thighs and the churning of his blood which ached for the satisfaction that only her body could provide.
I have told thee, that here be no freemen who work afield, nay, nor villeins either.
Nay, the free thinker, Nemojewski, wrote a book, in which he maintained the monstrous lie that Jewish religious murders are facts, and traveled all over the country with an agitatorial lecture to the same purpose.
Nay, thou shalt bide here in safety whilst I go forward--to visit Atene as I promised.
Sportsmen, in the warmth of a chace, are too much engaged to attend to any manner of ceremony, nay, even to the offices of humanity: for, if any of them meet with an accident by tumbling into a ditch, or into a river, the rest pass on regardless, and generally leave him to his fate: during this time, therefore, the two squires, though often close to each other, interchanged not a single word.
Nay, sir Daw, and sir La-Foole, you see the gentlewoman that has done you the favours!
When the Journal of either House is put in evidence for the purpose of determining whether the yeas and nays, were ordered, and what the vote was on any particular question, the Journal must be presumed to show the truth, and a statement therein that a quorum was present, though not disclosed by the yeas and nays, is final.
Mors Ambulans of The Doldrums, the hated Warl Ord of Renigard, and Utan, the detestable Orang of Turlang, would be there -- for not even such as these might with impunity say Trun the Warlock nay.
This amendment, emancipating Slaves employed by their masters to aid Rebellion, was adopted by 33 yeas to 6 nays.
He felt half bewildered and almost as if he had already become an embalmer, nay even a paraschites, one of the most despised of human beings.
Nay, something almost of exulation struggled through the placid expression of her features, as she cast her eyes up to Heaven, till modest gentleness veiled them again, and they were bent to earth.
Like an infatuated lover who denies or excuses the flagrant faults of the beloved, I strove to palliate the inhumanity of the Star Maker, nay positively I gloried in it.
Nay, Nay, detain me not, I must to Rudiger this instant, and either convince him that I am guiltless, or perish by his hand.
Nay, more: even a mutineer is to go untouched, lest these sacred passengers receive an accidental wound.
Nay, Aristotle would not have missed the quadrature of the circle, if only baleful conflicts had spared the books of the ancients, who knew all the methods of nature.