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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
never/ˈnevə(r)/

▶adverb

1 not ever.

2 not at all.
■ Brit. informal surely not.

– phrases
never a one not one.
well I never! informal expressing surprise or indignation.

– origin OE nǣfre, from ne ‘not’ + ǣfre ‘ever’.

'never' also found in these Oxford entries:

bachelor - bridesmaid - bud - circumstance - cohort - contented - darken - dead duck - die - differ - dream - end - fear - first - forget-me-not - head - him - inexhaustible - infallible - insatiate - invariable - invariant - inviolable - maiden - mind - miss - monotonic - monty - more - mystery - ne'er - never-ending - nevermore - never-never - never-never land - nil desperandum - none - now - nullipara - old-growth - perpetual - proper - rack - run - Sisyphean - stroke - that - twain - uncapped

Forum discussions with the word(s) "never" in the title:

- Gosh, I've never been this low before.
. . .my mind was never in a holier frame than while I gazed on that . . .
... were they never so insignificant ...
...he has never had anybody much to...
...never before achieved (sentence completion)
''I never have any privacy anymore''
''never could never say no'' - clarification
'can never quite escape ' phrase
'never a borrower or a lender be.'
'never' or 'not'?
'Oh, I never !' ????
(like that/such as) I had never seen before
>> Topic summary: Negative forms of used to: Didn't use to/ didn't used to/ used not to/ usedn't to/ usen't to/ never used to
"As if it had never happened" or "as if it never happened"
"but one of them has never been money"
"bye-and-bye" and "never"
"can never do" = always implying qualitative judgement?
"Diamonds Are for Never?"
"Future tense" never existed before the Norman Conquest?
"I have never been here before."
"I never did do it"
"I never did see the beat of that boy!"
"I never really rose above the role of shikari"
"I never thought Mr. Darcy so deficient in the appearance of it as you used to do."
"I never was" vs. "I've never been"
"I thought you will/would never come"
"I'll definitely clean the windows" - he never did.
"I'll Never Forget What's'isname"
"I've thought the war will never stop"
"It was the guy you have/had never liked"
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