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Definition of At all costs
1. Adverb. Regardless of the cost involved. "He wanted to save her life at all cost"
Definition of At all costs
1. Adverb. Absolutely imperative. Sparing no effort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of At All Costs
Literary usage of At all costs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"God is not bound, therefore, by love, to save all souls at all costs; ... Gqd,
therefore, is not bound by love to save all souls at all costs, ..."
2. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1920)
""Make your Eighteenth Corps hold at all costs on its present front. ... Hold at
all costs, where you find yourself, preserving your junction with the ..."
3. Before Port Arthur in a Destroyer: The Personal Diary of a Japanese Naval by Hesibo Tikowara, Robert Francis Sidney Grant (1907)
"Even writing is hard work, but I wanted at all costs to finish this description
of my last adventure now. I shall not be able to do it in hospital. ..."
4. Helpful Hints on Writing and Reading by Grenville Kleiser (1911)
"SCHOPENHAUER BE CLEAR at all costs It is no easy matter, when people are advancing
in anything, to prevent their going too fast for want of patience. ..."
5. The Passion of Labour by Robert Lynd (1921)
"If they had said during the last year," at all costs we must have houses," just as
... But the Government says, " at all costs " about only one thing—the ..."
6. ... The History of the 33rd Division, A.E.F., by Frederick Louis Huidekoper by Frederic Louis Huidekoper (1921)
"In such event, they hold fast at all costs. Owing to their exposed positions
these guns will do no harassing fire, but are kept in the most perfect ..."
7. Specimens of Roman Literature: Passages Illustrative of Roman Thought and Style by Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1879)
"Any Repudiation of its Engagements by the Slate is a Course that should at all
costs be avoided. Quamobrem, ne sit aes alienum, quod reipublicae noceat, ..."
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