Antonyms for nay
neɪnay

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1. nayadverb

   a negative

   "the nays have it"

   Antonyms:
   yea

2. nayadverb

   not this merely but also; not only so but

   "each of us is peculiar, nay, in a sense unique"

   Antonyms:
   yea

How to use nay in a sentence?

1. William Hazlitt:

   First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

2. Jade Thirlwall:

   Shy bairnes get nay toffee

3. Henry David Thoreau:

   Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

4. Joseph Conrad:

   You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

5. Jane Porter:

   Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

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