0 used to introduce a second and more extreme phrase in a sentence when the first phrase was not strong enough: --
1 Northern for no : --
We men are determined - nay, are we not pledged?
This book restores a sense of the man as private, nay secretive - modest, shy, retiring: and the frugal simplicity behind the gaudy gallimaufry.
It is notable that the first person singular possessive nay is absent from the data.
They pressed him to stay but a month, nay, only to defend them on the first day.
But such nay-saying would not solve the problems we will face.
The main, third chapter, which comprises some 120 pages, presents a detailed survey of techniques used by the nay- kah-n- authors.
Using the common reduction of note-values to one eighth, we nay say that the perfect long equals a dotted minim in a 3/4 measure.
Of the nays, 86 per cent relied on statements and 14 per cent on printed material.