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单词 every way
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every wayadv.adj.

Brit. /ˌɛvrᵻ ˈweɪ/, /ˈɛvrᵻ weɪ/, U.S. /ˈɛv(ə)ri ˌweɪ/
Forms:

α. see every adj. and pron. and way n.1 and int.1

β. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) 1900s– everway.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: every adj., way n.1
Etymology: < every adj. + way n.1 Compare earlier alway adv., anyway adv. Compare also earlier everyways adv.Sometimes written as one word. With the β. forms compare ever , U.S. regional variant of every adj. (see discussion at that entry).
A. adv.
1. In every direction.In quot. 1841 forming an isolated humorous compound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > direction > [adverb] > in all directions
everywaysa1398
every whitherwarda1398
every wayc1400
everywhither1495
allwhither1878
omnidirectionally1950
whichways1961
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4604 His folk was sone in þat medleye By strengþe dryuen eueryche weye.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. clxxiiii/1 This castell went vpon wheles, the whiche myght be tourned euery waye properly.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie E 315 Square euery waye. Quoquo versus quadratum.
1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. ii. ii. i. 366 His eyes are like a ballance, apt to propend every way, and to bee wayed downe with every wenches lookes.
1648 N. Ward Mercurius Anti-mechanicus 28 None is more pertinaciously self-conceited of infallibility, then he who is most envelloped in the tanglements and hampers of the old every-way-wreathing Serpent.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 398 A Deity residing in the midst of an universe, infinitely extended every way.
1833 W. G. Simms Bk. my Lady 133 His enemies were on his heels, running every way in pursuit of him.
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 320 Every-way-at-once-ish eyes.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 34 The everyway external stream.
1935 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (trade ed.) cxv. 621 Check was a short, compact, furious man, darting glances every way from beneath tangled eyebrows.
1992 N.Y. Times 4 Mar. c6/4 Hair that went every way at once.
2.
a. In every respect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adverb] > universally or with universal application > in every respect
every waya1530
a1530 T. Lupset Compend. Treat. Dyenge Well (1534) sig. Dv Euery way deth is a thing neuer to be feared of a wyse man.
1565 T. Peend tr. M. Bandello Moste Notable Hist. Ld. Mandosse sig. B.viiiv Due reuerence shee doth without delaye, Unto the noble Duchesse, as her better euery waye.
1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ ii. §57 The contrary..opinion is euery way without any shew of probability.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 109 You wrong me euery way: You wrong me Brutus. View more context for this quotation
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. ii. 12 Her Mind was every way equal to her Person. View more context for this quotation
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 278 A clock..with everyway-multiform-exquisitely-mechanical circumstances belonging to it.
1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 100 A wide, and every way most important, interval divides Werter..from Goethe's next novel.
1873 B. F. De Costa Hiawatha 12 His positive religious character is everyway overstated.
1935 W. H. Ukers All about Tea II. vi. xxvi. 281/1 It is possible for connoisseurs to secure..sets of silverware that faithfully reproduce any desired period and are everyway the equals of historic pieces.
1993 T. Parker May Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast (1994) vi. 80 She went to discos on Saturday nights, and she liked being in the company with her friends; every way, she was an ordinary normal girl.
b. In every manner or way.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > [adverb] > in every way
every way1570
everyhow1765
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qiiv/1 Euery way, omni modo, quauis.
1592 R. Greene Philomela Ep. Ded. sig. A3 I endeuored any way and euery way that I might, to discouer my affectionate dutie to him.
1611 W. Haine in tr. Cicero Certaine Epist. sig. Bv Provoking them every way, day by day, to excell one another by talking together,..by disputing one against another,..by writing one to another.
1648 T. Henderson Declar. Comm. Estates conc. Unlawfull Engagem. in Eng. 4 And so every way to oppresse all honest men in their persons, Estates and Consciences.
1739 H. Walpole in Hist. & Proc. House of Commons (1742) XI. 149 We are at War with Spain, and we will distress her every way we possibly can.
1864 Caledonian Mercury 8 Nov. To be understood any way and every way at the pleasure of the reader.
1977 D. Bredes Hard Feelings v. 154 Call him on the phone at like four o'clock in the morning, see, and you mouth him every way you know how.
2011 D. McCullough Greater Journey i. i. 8 He had been his mother's ‘right hand man’ through boyhood, helping every way he could.
B. adj.
Entire in every respect. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute
shirea1225
purec1300
properc1380
plainc1395
cleana1400
fine?a1400
entirec1400
veryc1400
starka1425
utterc1430
utterlyc1440
merec1443
absolute1531
outright1532
cleara1535
bloodyc1540
unproachable1544
flat1553
downright1577
sheer1583
right-down?1586
single1590
peremptory1601
perfecta1616
downa1625
implicit1625
every way1628
blank1637
out-and-outa1642
errant1644
inaccessional1651
thorough-paced1651
even down1654
dead1660
double-dyed1667
through stitch1681
through-stitched1682
total1702
thoroughgoing1719
thorough-sped1730
regular1740
plumb1748
hollow1751
unextenuated1765
unmitigated1783
stick, stock, stone dead1796
positive1802
rank1809
heart-whole1823
skire1825
solid1830
fair1835
teetotal1840
bodacious1845
raw1856
literal1857
resounding1873
roaring1884
all out1893
fucking1893
pink1896
twenty-four carat1900
grand slam1915
stone1928
diabolical1933
fricking1937
righteous1940
fecking1952
raving1954
1628 G. Hakewill Let. 16 July in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cxxxi. 399 Sir Thomas Bodley of whose..every way sufficiency, I have had a long trial.
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xi. 60 Wherefore I would demonstrate in paper, his every way ignorance of the Mathematicks.

Derivatives

everywayness n. Obsolete the quality of extending in every direction.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > presence > [noun] > being everywhere at the same time
ubiquity1637
ubiquitariness1654
everywayness1674
everywhereness1674
omnipresentness1727
totipresence1768
omnipresencea1822
ubiquitousness1852
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 103 His everywayness or immensity is the same.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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