Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- conj. And not; or not; not either: has neither phoned nor written us; life forms that are neither plants nor animals.
- conj. Chiefly Southern & Midland U.S. Than.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- And not: generally used correlatively after a negative, introducing a second or a subsequent negative member of a clause or sentence. Correlative to neither.
- Correlative to another nor.
- With the omission of neither or nor in the first clause or part of the proposition.
- Correlative to some other negative.
- And … not: not correlative, but merely continuative.
- [In this use formerly used with another negative, merely cumulative, nor being then equivalent, logically, to and.
- Than: after comparatives. Compare or in like use.
- An abbreviation of Norman.
Wiktionary
- conj. A function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true
- n. Logic function not OR. Inverse of OR function.
GNU Webster's 1913
- conj. A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following
neither , ornot , in the first member or clause (asor in affirmative propositions followseither ).Nor is also used sometimes in the first member forneither , and sometimes theneither is omitted and implied by the use ofnor .
Etymologies
- Middle English : ne, no; see no1 + or, or; see or1.Middle English, perhaps ultimately from nor, nor; see nor1.
Examples
“-- _Neither, nor, or, either ... or_, and _neither ... nor_ are conjunctions proper.”
“And if he bids you wait some time at the convent, dont wander away; and be sure you dont go with other boys to the lake to throw stones into the water, nor to watch them fish, nor to play with the nets hung up to dry, nor ”
“Scouts never grouse at hardships nor whine at each other, nor_ swear _when put out, but go on whistling and smiling.”
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns
“Canaan's descendants (on whom _alone_, and not _at all on Ham_, nor on his three other sons, Noah's curse fell), are now, _nor ever have been_, as a whole, in a state of bondage.”
“A horse is no wealth to us if we cannot ride, nor a picture if we cannot see, _nor can any noble thing be wealth, except to a noble person_.”
“I am not a fan of tweets as well...nor even facebook...facebook may have a little value in some situations..nor am I a fan club member type even when very young.”
“The answer to this is short: _I never wrote such poems, never received the sum he mentions, nor any other in the same quarter, nor_ (as far as moral or mortal certainty can be sure) _ever had, directly or indirectly, the slightest communication with Johnson in my life_; not being aware that the person existed till this intelligence gave me to understand that there were such people.”
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
“-- He's not that way: not a couple in all Ireland, and that's saying a great dale, looks less after their own, nor is more off-handeder, or open-hearteder, or greater openhouse-keeper, _nor_ [3] my Lord and my Lady Killpatrick. ”
“God of his fathers, nor the_ lawful _desire of women_ in matrimony, _nor any God, but shall magnify himself above all.”
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
“_nor_ that the powers of even _ordinary legislation_ cannot do it, -- nor that the clause granting Congress "exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such District," gives no power to do it; but that the”
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