nigh
/naɪ/ adverbe C2En français : presque, quasi
- Almost, nearly. · We talked for nigh on to two hours.
Dans la bibliothèque
My fearful footsteps patter nigh,
The time was barely 10 o’clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh de-peopled the streets.
“’Tis true, madame,” answered he, “that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.”
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