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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

every thing en · PRON

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of everything.
    alt of everything
    • The old man and his wife bestirred themselves to make every thing ready for the unexpected guests, […] 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, published 2009:
    • […] he promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable. 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 6:
    • His wardrobe was extensive—very extensive—not strictly classical perhaps, nor quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but every thing was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles? 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “In which is Given a Faithful Portraiture of Two Distinguished Persons; […]”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 151: