Translation
by no means, not at all
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Examples
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I by no means want to do this.
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He was in no way afraid of death.
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The matter is by no means easy.
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It is by no means so.
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He in no way departed from the truth.
Nequaquam is ne plus quaquam, "not in any way at all", and it is the emphatic refusal: stronger than a plain non, stronger than haud, and closer in force to minime. Its positive relative is usquequaque, "in every way, everywhere".
The Vulgate is why it sits this high in a Latin frequency list. Where the Hebrew has a flat denial, Jerome reaches for nequaquam again and again, so it is far commoner in ecclesiastical Latin than anything in Cicero would lead you to expect. It can also stand alone as an answer, like English "certainly not", with no verb attached, and that is how a good deal of biblical dialogue works.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 7: nequaquam, desum, graviter and 7 more words.