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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wellnighadverb
Almost.
Etymology: well and nigh.
The same so sore annoyed has the knight,
That wellnigh choaked with the deadly stink,
His forces fail. Fairy Queen, b. i.My feet were almost gone: my steps had wellnigh slipt. Ps.
England was wellnigh ruined by the rebellion of the barons, and Ireland utterly neglected. Davies.
Whoever shall read over St. Paul’s enumeration of the duties incumbent upon it, might conclude, that wellnigh the whole of christianity is laid on the shoulders of charity alone. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.
Notwithstanding a small diversity of positions, the whole aggregate of matter, as long as it retained the nature of a chaos, would retain wellnigh an uniform tenuity of texture. Richard Bentley.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wellnigh in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wellnigh in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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