Significados de nay months em inglês

The tension for weeks, nay months, had been a severe strain-andnow this sudden joy!

Vessels freighted with perishable cargoes are often obliged to wait weeks, nay months, at the mouth of the Straits, to the great injury of commerce.

My views were maturely formed, after years of reflection, and weeks-naymonths-ofcarefully-penned writing.