never

     

Never means "at no point in time". The term comes from the wors "not" and "ever", meaning that something is not ever going to happen.

Trivia about never

  • In his "History", Livy wrote, "Potius sero quam numquam" -- better late than this
  • Ogden Nash: "a child need not be very clever / to learn that 'later, dear' means" this
  • King Lear says of the dead Cordelia, "Thou'lt come no more," this, this, this, this, this
  • Jamais is this adverb