wellnigh
English
Adverb
wellnigh (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of well-nigh.
- 1910, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], “A Hundred Thousand Heroes—A Hundred Thousand Victims”, in In the Foreign Legion, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 6524280, page 137:
- Five years ago the officers determined to build a new mess. There was only one objection to the fulfilment of this wish: the regimental coffers were wellnigh empty.
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