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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

within ames ace en · ADP

Etymology

See ambsace.

Meanings

  1. (UK, idiomatic, obsolete) Nearly, very near.
    • […]The possibility that he might prefer the excitement of such an adventure to an expedition into Yorkshire did occur to the Major, but he discarded it: Richmond had been within ames-ace of jumping at the chance offered him,[…]. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 17, in The Unknown Ajax: