not so neither

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not so neither - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Neither \Nei"ther\, conj.
     Not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or
     more coordinate clauses of which those that follow begin with
     nor.
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           Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the
           king.                                    --1 Kings
                                                    xxii. 31.
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           Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent,
           Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me. --Milton.
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           When she put it on, she made me vow
           That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it.
                                                    --Shak.
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     Note: Neither was formerly often used where we now use nor.
           "For neither circumcision, neither uncircumcision is
           anything at all." --Tyndale. "Ye shall not eat of it,
           neither shall ye touch it." --Gen. iii. 3. Neither is
           sometimes used colloquially at the end of a clause to
           enforce a foregoing negative (nor, not, no). "He is
           very tall, but not too tall neither." --Addison. " `I
           care not for his thrust' `No, nor I neither.'" --Shak.
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     Not so neither, by no means. [Obs.] --Shak.
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