wellnigh

English

Adverb

wellnigh (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of well-nigh.
    • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 10, p. 161:
      Athens especially never forgave the defection which had wellnigh involved her in hopeless ruin.
    • 1910, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], “A Hundred Thousand Heroes—A Hundred Thousand Victims”, in In the Foreign Legion, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, 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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