What does ne mean?
Ne means (obsolete or deliberately archaic) Not..
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/nə/ · adverb
(obsolete or deliberately archaic) Not..
For she ne dare doo, but to commande.
This shold haue bene his skuce at the lest / And it ne had bene but good & honest.
O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre / For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue / Thow ne caryst what thow dost requyre.
And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.
For he ne had, nor could increase his line.
In geving me to him whom I ne can, ne may, ne ought to love.
Mary (quoth the king) so might me mine, ne haddest thou been Earle Godwine: casting in his dish the murder of his brother Alfred, which was done to death at Elie by the Counsell of Godwine.
Ne durst again his fieri face out-show.
Use ne when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ne means (obsolete or deliberately archaic) Not..
Common synonyms include neon, atomic number 10, northeast.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For she ne dare doo, but to commande.
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