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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In any case.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In any way or manner; to any degree.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In any wise or way; at all.

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  • adverb In any case.

Etymologies

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any +‎ -wise

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Examples

  • Khalifah took his meaning and heartening his heart and summoning spirit replied, “By Him who bestowed upon thee the succession to thy cousin, 256 I know her not in anywise and have had no commerce with her save by way of sight and speech!”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So I told my people to buy, borrow or steal them and bring them in anywise, And had all this set before him.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • They rejoined, All is as it was and naught is in anywise changed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In any event, nothing in Burton's remarks suggested that Obama finds the scrutiny too much to handle, or in anywise constituted a complaint about the scrutiny.

    Obama Spokesman: No Candidate Has Been More Scrutinized By Media Than Obama Has 2009

  • I thought we could reserve this day to talk about whatever's been happening over the past week - bookwise, newswise, anywise you want to interpret it.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Nalini Singh 2007

  • They replied, “Do us no damage, for we accept thee as Sultan over us and will not anywise gainsay thy bidding.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Which I have more willingly done, that he that is or hath been jealous, may see his error as in a glass; he that is not, may learn to detest, avoid it himself, and dispossess others that are anywise affected with it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Yet when she spake of the tarrying of the Champions both to the castellan and Sir Leonard the priest (who was the wiser man of the two), each said the same thing, to wit, that it was no marvel if they were not yet come, seeing whatlike the adventure was; and neither of those two seemed in anywise to have lost hope.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • She hung her head, and said: Fair sir, it may not anywise be; yet I thank thee, I thank thee.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • On the fourteenth, frequent convulsions; extremities cold; not in anywise collected; suppression of urine.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

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