never again

English

Adverb

never again (not comparable)

1. (set phrase) At no time in the future; usually said of a negative event, practice, etc., which should not be allowed to reoccur.
   • 2012, Elie Wiesel, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     Never again becomes more than a slogan: It’s a prayer, a promise, a vow … never again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence

   • 2014, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Whitney Douglas, Sara W. Fry, The Activist Learner: Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Better, Teachers College Press, →ISBN, page 93:

     Yet, as Rose says, "Never again is obsolete. Never again is now.” She points out that there are contemporary genocides and many human rights violations happening at this very second. Rose's words challenge us all to respond to the moral imperative of standing up when confronted by injustice, ...

Synonyms

• (at no time in the future): nevermore

Translations

at no time in the future

• Bulgarian: никога вече (nikoga veče)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 永不再會 / 永不再会 (yǒngbù zàihuì)

• Dutch: nimmermeer (nl)
• Esperanto: neniam plu
• Finnish: milloinkaan
• French: plus jamais, jamais plus
• Galician: nunca máis
• German: nie wieder, niemals mehr, nimmermehr (de)
• Greek: ποτέ ξανά (poté xaná)

  Ancient: μήποτε πάλιν (mḗpote pálin)

• Hebrew: לעולם לא עוד
• Hungarian: sohasem (hu)
• Icelandic: aldrei aftur
• Italian: mai più
• Japanese: 二度とない (にどとない, nidotonai)
• Latin: numquam iterum
• Malay: tidak sekali
• Old Church Slavonic: николиже пакꙑ (nikoliže paky)
• Polish: nigdy więcej
• Portuguese: nunca mais
• Romanian: niciodată (ro)
• Russian: никогда́ бо́льше (nikogdá bólʹše)
• Serbo-Croatian: nikad više
• Spanish: nunca más, más nunca
• Ukrainian: ніко́ли зно́ву (nikóly znóvu)
• Welsh: byth eto