nev'r

English

Adverb

nev'r (not comparable)

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of never
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 131, column 1:

     Till hee fac'd the Slaue: / Which neu'r ſhooke hands, nor bad farwell to him, / […]

2. (African-American Vernacular, dated) Eye dialect spelling of never.