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nay

/neɪ/ sustantivo C1

En español: voto en contra, no

  1. A vote against. · I vote nay, even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.
  2. A person who voted against. · The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed; the nays have it.

Plural nays

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Praise him with nightingale words-- Nay, I will praise him instead.
The Jungle Book, p. 85 · B2
She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 176 · C1
“Nay, if you are so serious about it, I shall consider the matter as absolutely settled.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 29 · B2
I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well--and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls, I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William’s in his regimentals.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 31 · B2

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