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Definition of To set at naught

To set at naught
Naught Naught, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n?wiht, n?uht, n?ht; ne not + ? ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.] 1. Nothing. [Written also nought.] Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9. 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. ``Ye have set at naught all my counsel.' --Prov. i. 25.

Meaning of To set at naught from wikipedia

- phrases are "bring to naught", "set at naught", and "availeth naught". The Reader's Digest Right Word at the Right Time labels "naught" as "old-fashioned"...
- series to the dignity of an uncaused first cause, is to set at naught the very law of causation on which the whole argument proceeds." According to the atheist...
- names for the number 0 in English include zero, nought, naught (/nɔːt/), and nil. In contexts where at least one adjacent digit distinguishes it from the letter...
- 2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be is a 2016 Canadian short science fiction film directed by Marco Checa Garcia and based on the 1962 short story "2 B R 0 2...
- Blake. McNaught was born in 1973 and grew up in Shepparton, Victoria. His parents owned a travel agency in Melbourne. McNaught got his first Lego set from...
- arbitration, and it is only when the conditions of the convention have been set at naught that other measures may be emplo****. The United Nations Charter prohibits...
- their fair demands—the ownership and control of their livelihoods—are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of...
- McNaught or MacNaught or Macnaught is a Scottish surname deriving from MacNeachdan which is a Gaelic patronymic for the Pictish name Nechdan meaning 'Pure'...
- intellectual and moral superiority and to submit to it without complaint, although they set at naught all those privileges which wealth and birth have...
- Judith McNaught (born May 10, 1944) is a bestselling author of over a dozen historical and contemporary romance novels, with 30 million copies of her works...