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everywhere, adv.|ˈɛvərɪ-, ˈɛvrɪhwɛə(r)|
[repr. two distinct ME. compounds. 1. ever-ywhere, f. ever + ywhere (OE. ᵹehwǽr) anywhere, everywhere. 2. every-where, f. every (ME. everilk) + where. Formerly often written separately.]
1. In every place; also in narrower sense, in every part (of a limited space, of a book, an author's writings, etc.). Also, loosely: in many places; of frequent occurrence.
a1225Ancr. R. 200 Auh ȝe euerihwar, hwarse ich go swuðest forð, bileaue ȝe þe lengure. a1225Leg. Kath. 681 Þi leofmon & ti lauerd..is mit te eauerihwer. a1300Cursor M. 5567 (Gött.) Ouer-all his kingriche euerilk-quar [c 1340 Trin. euery where]. c1340Ibid. 18001 (Trin.) What maner is þat ihesus Þat werreþ on þe euerywhore. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iii. x. (1483) 56 Suche noyse and crye euery where sownyd allas. c1590Marlowe Faust. Wks. (Rtldg.) 85/1, I may be here and there and everywhere. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. ii. §18 Motion..must be alike everywhere in it [matter]. 1692E. Walker Epictetus' Mor. xiv, You'll find th' Avenues guarded ev'ry where. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. Introd., I every-where use these Words in the Senses here ascribed to them. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. i. ii. (1874) 39 We discover everywhere signs of littleness and restlessness. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xix. 136 The horizontal stratification is everywhere beautifully shown. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 116 Irresistible here, as everywhere in Plato, in his intellectual superiority. 1906Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. lxix. 1811 Patent Carpet Sweepers..are in use everywhere. 1912H. H. Munro Unbearable Bassington vii. 122 ‘Real country scenery; apple blossom everywhere.’ ‘Surely only on the apple trees,’ said Lady Caroline. 1960News Chron. 19 July 3/1 The Italian fashions are glitter, glitter, all the way... Lamé is everywhere.
†2. quasi-adj. All-pervading. Obs. rare—1.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 31 Eternity is said to be an everlasting now, and immensity as an every where cleavelesness.
3. As n. All places or directions; the everywhere, the infinite; omnipresent space.
a1631Donne The Good Morrow 11 in Poems (1633) 165 For love, all love of other sights controules, And makes one little roome, an every where. 1893G. Macdonald Poems II. 158 Out of the everywhere into here. 1922D. H. Lawrence England, my England 207 Everywhere seemed silent, but for the rattle of trains at the crossing.
Hence everywhereness, ubiquity, omnipresence. rare.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 32 Neither of them would come any nearer to everlastingness, or everywhereness, than the shortest and the least do. 1839Bailey Festus xx. (1848) 70/1 Poetry is not confined to books, For the creative spirit..hath God's everywhereness. |