nor
/nɔɹ/ conjunction B1- And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one). · Nor did I stop to think, but ran.· They are happy, nor need we worry.
- A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true. · I am neither hungry nor thirsty.
- Used to introduce a further negative statement. · The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.· I hardly spoke with nor listened to anybody else.
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This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river.
I have been to the Emerald City many times, and it is a beautiful and wonderful place; but I have never been permitted to see the Great Oz, nor do I know of any living person who has seen him.”
neither you nor myself, but Fernand; you knew very well that I threw the paper into a corner of the room—indeed, I fancied I had destroyed it.”
Franz presented Albert as one of the most distinguished young men of the day, both as regarded his position in society and extraordinary talents; nor did he say more than the truth, for in Paris and the circle in which the viscount moved, he was looked upon and cited as a model of perfection.
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