Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another
man's head, and yet see never the worse.
South.
And he answered him to never a word.
Matt. xxvii. 14.
Never is much used in composition with present participles to form
adjectives, as in never-ceasing, never-dying, never-ending,
never-fading, never-failing, etc., retaining its usual signification.
Never a deal, not a bit. [Obs.] Chaucer.
-- Never so, as never before; more than at any other time, or in any
other circumstances; especially; particularly; -- now often expressed
or replaced by ever so.
Ask me never so much dower and gift.
Gen. xxxiv. 12.
A fear of battery, . . . though never so well grounded, is no
duress.
Blackstone.
Nev"er*more` (?), adv. Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of
Love. Tyndale.
Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore.
Longfellow.