Examples

"each of us is peculiar, nay, in a sense unique"

Used in print

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta , as every artist delights to do , wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and - especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair - into the relations of men and women : `` In their relations , she was the giver and he the receiver , nay the demander .

Examples

"the nays have it"

Used in print

It is she who says aye or nay to the intimate questions of sexual technique and mechanics - not the husband .

Related terms

yea negative