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every where en · ADV

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  1. (alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete) Obsolete form of everywhere.
    alt of everywhere
    • You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments every where, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; […] 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:
    • We have been told that our Struggle has loosened the bands of Government every where. 1776 April 14, John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams
    • Clo[wne]. Foolery ſir, does walke about the Orbe like the Sun, it ſhines euery where. c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 1:
    • Mary had a little lamb, / Its fleece was white as snow, / And every where that Mary went / The lamb was sure to go ; 1830, Sarah J. Hale, “Mary's Lamb”, in Poems for Our Children, Marsh, Capen & Lyon, pages 6–7: