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oikeastaan
ei-ääni
puhekieltä no
or even, or more like, or should I say. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
His face was dirty, nay filthy.
1663, w:Hudibras Hudibras, by w:Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler, part 1, s:Hudibras/Part 1/Canto 2|canto 2
- ... And proved not only horse, but cows, / Nay pigs, were of the elder house: / For beasts, when man was but a piece / Of earth himself, did th' earth possess.
1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 18.
- And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very dreams, we shall find, if we reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures,
A vote against.
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I vote nay, even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.
A person who voted against.
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The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed; the nays have it.
puhekieltä To refuse.
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