单词 | in-all |
释义 | in-alln. Now rare. That in which everything is contained. Cf. be-all n., end-all n. ΚΠ 1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 33 ‘Work, work, work!’ are the in-all and the end-all of existence to him. 1868 A. Cookman in E. H. Nevin City of God p. x Jesus Christ himself is the Alpha and the Omega—the First and the Last—the all and the in all of His militant Church. 1910 F. F. Cook Bygone Days in Chicago 307 The upshot was that the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he in time became the in-all and the be-all, received rather scant attention sometimes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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