How to pronounce“nigh”in English
adjof a leader who was in a dire political predicament. It became clear to me that
night and I said so on the air that um that the end was nigh and sure enough very quickly it was. Now as I say the compar there is no comparison with where
we are now but it is but it is a useful illustration Adam because it's these moments where now that night the iceberg was so above so far above the water line
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Definitions of “nigh”
Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
“Ye […] are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near
“When the charnel-eyed Pale Horse has nighed”
Almost, nearly.
“So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.[…]It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.”
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