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Inherited fromMiddle Englishevery,everich,eaver-euch,averiche,aver alche,ever ælche, fromOld Englishǣfre ǣlċ,ǣfre ǣġhwelċ(“each and every”). Bysurface analysis,ever +‎each orever +‎which.

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every

  1. All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
    Every person in the room stood and cheered.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, chapter III, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former daysevery tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who metevery evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was consciousevery moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume188, number26, page36:
      Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. Forevery dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  2. Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
    We stopped for refreshmentsevery ten miles.
    The alarm is going offevery few minutes.
    Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue. The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.
    Decimation originally meant the execution ofevery tenth soldier in a unit; that is, ten per cent of soldiers were killed.
  3. (with certain nouns)Denotes an abundance of something.
    We wish youevery happiness in the future.
    I haveevery confidence in him.
    There isevery reason why we should not go.
    The police will makeevery effort to trace the missing girl.

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  • Now generally used only for a group of three or more, but formerly could be used for two, in the sense of "each" or "both":
  • 1828, James Hogg,Mary Burnet:
    But it is true that I tell ye; our dear bairn is to meet us at Moffat the morn, wi' a son inevery hand; and we maun e'en gang and see her aince again, and kiss her and bless her afore we dee.

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all of a countable group

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every

  1. Alternative form ofeverich
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