nay

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.

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,

I vote nay, even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.

The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed; the nays have it.

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