well-nigh
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈwɛɫnaɪ]
well-nigh (not comparable)
- Almost, nearly.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I, [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=S9tBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=well-nigh(Spenser)&q&f=false#v=onepage&q=well-nigh(Spenser)&f=false page 3]:
- The ſame ſo ſore annoyed has the Knight, / That well-nigh choaked with the deadly ſtink,
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary:
- The household cock had given his first summons, and the night was wellnigh spent.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- […] Sindbad the Seaman continued:— So when I escaped drowning and reached the island which afforded me fruit to eat and water to drink, I returned thanks to the Most High and glorified Him; after which I sat till nightfall, hearing no voice and seeing none inhabitant. Then I lay down, well-nigh dead for travail and trouble and terror, and slept without surcease till morning, […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I, [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=S9tBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=well-nigh(Spenser)&q&f=false#v=onepage&q=well-nigh(Spenser)&f=false page 3]:
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