Definition: none

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none
     adv : not at all or in no way; "seemed none too pleased with his
           dinner"; "shirt looked none the worse for having been
           slept in"; "none too prosperous"; "the passage is none
           too clear"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

None \None\, a. & pron. [OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. n[=a]n,
   fr. ne not + [=a]n one. ?. See No, a. & adv., One, and
   cf. Non-, Null, a.]
   1. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also
      partitively, or as a plural, not any.

            There is none that doeth good; no, not one. --Ps.
                                                  xiv. 3.

            Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day,
            which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
                                                  --Ex. xvi. 26.

            Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought.
                                                  --Milton.

            None of their productions are extant. --Blair.

   2. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old
      style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life.

   None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically.
      ``They knew that I was none of the register that entered
      their admissions in the universities.'' --Fuller.

   None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London
      pride
      (a), under London.
None \None\, n. [F.]
   Same as Nones, 2.