> as lemmas

1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Iob i. 21 in Paraphr. Divine Poems How perfect then is man? from head to foot Defil'd with filth, and rotten at the root.

1654 I. Penington Divine Ess. x. 95 That which is but spirit in a type, or by vertue of a dispensation, but is still flesh at root in its own in most nature.

1660 Whole Triall Mr. Christopher Love 102 The grand work, at heart, at root, was the subversion of the present Government.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. ii. 45 He was, at root, a godly and kind-hearted pedant enough.

1869 E. S. P. Ward Men, Women, & Ghosts 148 It [sc. spiritualism] is evil,—evil at the root; and..had better be let alone.

1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 33/2 Is not true love itself holy? for love is the fountain of all man's bliss, and all love, like goodness and truth, is at root one.

1909 J. Moyes in Rep. 19th Eucharistic Congr. 1908 37 Both these twin Reformational principles are at root logically one.

1963 D. M. Matheson tr. F. Schuon Understanding Islam i. 20 Moslem antihistoricism..culminates in this rejection which is at root quite external and for some even doubtful as to its intention.

2005 Oxf. Amer. Fall 111/2 What drives him is, surely, not so different at root from what drives any number of academically trained, thoroughly plugged-in practitioners.