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She sits beside me in French every day, smelling of lilies and laundry soap.

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  1. adjective Constituting each and all members of a group without exception.
  2. adjective Being all possible: had every chance of winning, but lost.
  3. adjective Being each of a specified succession of objects or intervals: every third seat; every two hours.

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  • Almost every third word is a Latin word with a Ger- manized ending, the Latin portion being al- ways printed in Roman letters, while in the last syllable the German character is retained At length, about the year 1620, OPITZ arose, whose genius more nearly resembled that of Dryden than any other poet, who at present occurs to my recollection. —  Biographia Literaria
  • Find a new word every day (perhaps at dictionary. com) and use it creatively every day. —  The Happiness Project
  • Apple hides this sort of complexity by, say, not giving the two different aluminum Macbooks different model numbers, or not giving the iMac a new name every time it gets a speed bump. —  danblacharski's blog
  • Or, to put it in plain English, every time a signal doubles its distance away from the antenna, its power drops by a factor of four. —  GeekLikeMe.net
  • Tom Daschle on vaccination: "I can't imagine that we could do any better than ensure that every -- every child is immunized" —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
 

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  1. Middle English everi, everich, from Old English ǣfre ǣlc : ǣfre, ever; see aiw- in Indo-European roots + ǣlc, each; see līk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also everie; from Middle English every, everi, earlier everich, everech, everuch, everych, etc., evrich, efrich, etc., everilc, everilk, æverelch, æverelc, etc., æverælc, from Anglo-Saxon æ¯fre æ¯lc, every, literally ever each: æ¯fre, ever, a generalizing adverb; æ¯lc, each: see ever and each. Thus -y in every represents each, and every is each generalized.
 

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