Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In every direction; everywhere; always; under all circumstances.
- In every respect; altogether; entirely.
- In any way; at all.
- By all means; on any terms; at any rate.
- Notwithstanding; nevertheless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Always; wholly; everywhere.
- adverb obsolete By any or means; at all events.
- adverb obsolete Notwithstanding; yet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete
Always . - adverb obsolete Any way, by any means.
- adverb obsolete
Anyway , in any case;notwithstanding ; at all events;yet . - adverb obsolete
Altogether .
Etymologies
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Examples
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All she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Mynse hem small {e} in þe sirupp {e}: of fumosite algate be ye feeryng {e}.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Whereupon, our sovereign Lord, as well our Lords as we have communed by your high commandment in these matters: and known well among us all without [doubt ye are] so Christian a Prince that ye would in so high a matter begin nothing but that were to God's pleasance, and to eschew by all ways the shedding of Christian blood; and that, if algate [at all events] ye should do it, that denying of right and reason were the cause [rather] than wilfulheadedness.
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820
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All she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God’s rightwiseness to withsay.
Ulysses 2003
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_] ¶ As ye be co_m_avnded, so do ye algate; 120 be not cavseles fro _th_e table absente; yt ys a grete pleasure to _th_e high estate [1] [Sidenote 1: noble, lord.]
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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