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Definition of "nevermore" []

  • Never again. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "nevermore" in a sentence
  • "In the poem “The Raven, ” by Edgar Allan Poe, for example, the word nevermore is a motif appearing at the end of each stanza."
  • "In "The Raven" the raven tells the man he will see Lenore "nevermore"."
  • "“No, but I am profoundly moved by the sad beauty of it; and by the fact that perhaps Poe got his refrain of 'nevermore' for his Raven as a reminiscence from it.”"
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