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Ambition he had none--none, at all events, in the last ten or fifteen years, during which I have known him.

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  1. pronoun No one; not one; nobody: None dared to do it.
  2. pronoun Not any: None of my classmates survived the war.
  3. pronoun No part; not any: none of your business.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English nān : ne, no, not; see ne in Indo-European roots + ān, one; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English non. noon, none, earlier nan (later Scots nane), from Anglo-Saxon nān, not one, not a, none, no, in plural nāne (= Old Saxon nēn = OFries. nēn = Dutch neen = Middle Low German nēn, nein, Low German nēn, neen = Old High German Middle High German G. nein = Latin non (for ne unum, ne oinom: see non), accusative neuter as adverb, not, no); from ne, not, + ān, one: see ne and one, an, a. None is thus the negative of one and of an, a. The final consonant became lost (as in the form an, on, reduced to a) before a following noun, the reduced form no (no) being now used exclusively in that position: see no.
  2. from Middle English non, noon, none, etc.; orig. accusative or instrumental of the adjective none: see none, a. Cf. no, adv.
 

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