Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for None
none, pron. [OE nán, not one.] (webplay: all, any, least, no, not, nothing, one, other, part).
- Nothing; not any such thing; [ellipsis of something previously mentioned.]
- Ordinary; of no significance.
- Nonexistent; deficient; insufficient; lacking; missing; wanting.
- Nothing.
- No one; no person; not anybody; not any one of a group.
- Phrase. “None of”: not at all; not in the least.
- Phrase. “None but”: only; just; none other than.
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