Every
['evrɪ] or ['ɛvri]
Definition
(adj.) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception; 'every person is mortal'; 'every party is welcome'; 'had every hope of success'; 'every chance of winning' .
(adj.) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified; 'every third seat'; 'every two hours' .
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Definition
(a. & a. pron.) All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber.
(a. & a. pron.) Every one. Cf.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Each (of several).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:[See AIL]
ANT:None
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Definition
adj. each one of a number: all taken separately.—pron. Ev′erybody every person.—adj. Ev′eryday of or belonging to every day daily: common usual: pertaining to week-days in opposition to Sunday.—pron. Ev′erything all things: all.—advs. Ev′eryway in every way or respect; Ev′erywhen at all times; Ev′erywhere in every place.—Every bit the whole; Every now and then or again at intervals; Every other every second—e.g. every other day every alternate day.
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Examples
- He, the noble, the warlike, the great in every quality that can adorn the mind and person of man; he is fitted to be the Protector of England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Well, you know, Standish, every dose you take is an experiment-an experiment, you know, said Mr. Brooke, nodding towards the lawyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is sufficient if every thing be compleat in the object itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The list would be too long to simply name all the ingenious machines there exhibited and subsequently invented for every important operation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I have no such scruples, and I am sure I could put up with every unpleasantness of that kind with very little effort. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- An idea is by its very nature weaker and fainter than an impression; but being in every other respect the same, cannot imply any very great mystery. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I merely intend to make myself entrancingly agreeable to every one I know, and to keep them in your corner as long as possible. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There seems to be a _limit of growth_ for every kind of living thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every king and princelet in Europe was building his own Versailles as much beyond his means as his subjects and credits would permit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To grow rich is to get money; and wealth and money, in short, are, in common language, considered as in every respect synonymous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I make the schoolmaster so ridiculous, and so aware of being made ridiculous, that I see him chafe and fret at every pore when we cross one another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- When she sang, every note thrilled in his dull soul, and tingled through his huge frame. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I try, but every day I lose a little, and feel more sure that I shall never gain it back. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A party that tried to answer every conflicting interest would stand still because people were pulling in so many different directions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Every one heard, of course, that there had been some disagreement--some misunderstanding---- Did she hear that Bertha turned me off the yacht? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But he came regularly every evening and sat without his coat, with his head against the wall, as though he would have helped us if he had known how. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Every shilling of my money is tied up. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yes, I am guilty of those faults, and punished for them every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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