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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Why-not n. A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening.  [Obs.]
 When the church
 Was taken with a why-not in the lurch.   --Hudibras.
    This game . . . was like to have been lost with a why-not.   --Nugae Antiq.
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