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I will have all--all, that is, which would have normally come to me--or nothing He stood gazing intently at his mother's face, his small features sparkling I will have all--or nothing!"

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  1. adjective Being or representing the entire or total number, amount, or quantity: All the windows are open. Deal all the cards. See Synonyms at whole.
  2. adjective Constituting, being, or representing the total extent or the whole: all Christendom.
  3. adjective Being the utmost possible of: argued the case in all seriousness.
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  • “They grow dates This all is Russian stuff,” Villanueva said. —  Persuader by Lee Child
  • Since I couldn't pronounce all the Greek words correctly, I wrote some of it on a pad … carefully putting all the accent marks above the words as I had been taught.
  • This all was then simmered in vegetable stock, pureed and then will be served with a dollop of Maine made organic yogurt. —  Knox
  • In one sense, this all might be an argument for laissez faire economics. —  NDN blogs
  • Now, with the collapse of the real estate and mortgage bubble, the speculative money went into food: into biofuel speculation, into other food speculation on the Chicago Board of Trade, into commodities, into energy, oil, and other things, and this all is a bubble. —  LaRouche's Latest
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  1. Middle English al, from Old English eall; see al-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English all, al, plural alle, from Anglo-Saxon all, al, with breaking eall, eal, plural ealle, = Old Northumbrian al, alle, = Old Saxon al, alle or alla, = OFries. al, alle, = Dutch al, alle, = Old High German Middle High German al, alle, German all, alle, = Icelandic allr, allir, = Swedish all, alla, = Danish all, alle, = Goth, alls, allai, all; as a prefix, Middle English all-, al-, Anglo-Saxon eall-, eal-, al- = Old Saxon al-, etc., usually with single l, merging with a simpler Teutonic form al-, found only in comp. and deriv. (Anglo-Saxon al-, æl- = Old Saxon Old High German al-, ala-, alo- = Gothic (Moesogothic) ala-, as in Anglo-Saxon almihtig, ælmihtig = Old Saxon almahtig, alamahtig, alomahtig = Old High German almahtig, alamahtig, almighty; Old High German alaniuwi, all new; Goth, alamans, all men (see Alemannic); Old Saxon alung = OFries. along = Old High German alanc, entire, complete, etc.), perhaps from √ *al in Anglo-Saxon alan (preterit ōl), nourish, grow, produce, = Icelandic ala (later English dial. alie, q. v.), nourish, = Goth, alan, grow, be nourished, = Latin alere, nourish (see aliment), of which all, Goth, alls, stem *alla-, an assimilation of *alna-, would be an ancient past participle adjective form in -n (cf. a like assimilation in full), to be compared with Anglo-Saxon ald, eald, English old, Old High German alt = Gothic (Moesogothic) *alths, altheis, old, = Latin altus, deep, high, an ancient past participle adjective form in -t (-d, -ed): see old and alt. Cf. Irish ule, uile = Gaelic uile = W. oll, whole, all, every. The several uses of all, as adjective, pron., noun, and adverb, overlap, and cannot be entirely separated. See alder, orig. genitive plural of all.
  2. from Middle English al, rarely alle, from Anglo-Saxon eall, eal (= Old Saxon al, etc.), properly neuter accusative (cf. Anglo-Saxon ealles = Old Saxon alles = Gothic (Moesogothic) allis, adverb, properly genitive neuter) of eall, eal, all: see all, adjective The adverbial uses of all overlap the adjectival uses: see especially under all, adjective, I., at end.
  3. Middle English al oute, alout
  4. the, adverb: see the
 

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