every

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Estimated CEFR level: A1 — Beginner

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adjective (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
adjective each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified

Inherited from Middle English every, everich, everych, from Old English ǣfre ǣlċ, ǣfre ǣġhwelċ. By surface analysis, ever + each or ever + which.

“Every time we come back to Ralph Paton. — The murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
Her face was coming close.... "Every time I blooming well kissed 'em, arter I bin an' picked 'em up," he declared. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. — The Monk: A Romance, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

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