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  1. adjective One, some, every, or all without specification: Take any book you want. Are there any messages for me? Any child would love that. Give me any food you don't want.
  2. adjective Exceeding normal limits, as in size or duration: The patient cannot endure chemotherapy for any length of time.
  3. pronoun Any one or more persons, things, or quantities.
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  • Pritkin seemed to see demons everywhere, whether any were there or not. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • A mentionable curio of authorship on that occasion is this: whatever may be the rule now, in those days the degree of D.C.L. involved a three-hours' imprisonment in the pulpit of the Bodleian Chapel, for the candidate to answer therefrom in Latin any theological objectors who might show themselves for that purpose; as, however, the chapel was always locked by Dr. Bliss, the registrar, there was never a possibility to make objection. —  My Life as an Author
  • Note: Please keep all comments in English, any posts containing a different language will be deleted. —  Anime Nano!
  • But it's unclear whether any are the so-called '' mother ship '' that pirates use to drop them off at hijacking sites. —  KCBS Bay Area News
  • But it's unclear whether any are the so-called "mother ship" that pirates use to drop them off at hijacking sites.
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  1. Middle English ani, from Old English ǣnig; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The pron. is that of the early modern English eny; from Middle English any, anie, ani, eny, enie, eni (also contr. ei, eie, œi, œie), from Anglo-Saxon ǣnig, modified form of ānig (which reappears in Middle English ony, English dial. and Scots ony, = Old Saxon ēnig, ēnag = OFries. ēnig, ēnich, ienig, eng, ang, any, = Dutch eenig, any, only, sole, = Old High German einag, Middle High German einec, eineg, German einig, one, only, sole), from ān, one, + -ig, English -y: see one and -y. Any is thus an adjective deriv. of one, or rather of its weakened form an, a, in an indeterminate unitary or, in plural, partitive use. The emphatic sense ‘only’ coexists in D. with the indeterminate, and is the only sense in G.
  2. from Middle English any, eny, ony; properly the instrumental case of the adjective
 

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