nay
/neɪ/ sustantivo C1En español: voto en contra, no
- A vote against. · I vote nay, even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.
- 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.
She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne.
“Nay, if you are so serious about it, I shall consider the matter as absolutely settled.
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.”
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