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Definition of Every bit
1. Adverb. To the same degree (often followed by 'as'). "He is every bit as mean as she is"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Every Bit
Literary usage of Every bit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"Every woodcut is drawn to scale, every bit of apparatus employed has its dimensions
given, every difficulty is pointed out, and failure thus made almost ..."
2. Letters of Celia Thaxter by Celia Thaxter (1895)
"I am so glad for every bit of criticism. I was so happy when I wrote the Shoals
book — it wrote itself. I seemed to have very little to do with it anyway. ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"She should say grace to every bit of meat, And gape no wider than a wafer's
thickness." BJ vol. 6, p. 352. BUCKINGHAM introduced sedan-chairs from Spain, ..."
4. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"... which, however decorously suppressed by pursing his lips, gleam through every
turn, every line, every bit and morsel of his kind countenance during the ..."
5. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"This B. phrase in used as denoting the whole of any thing, every bit of it ; as
equivalent to Staup and Roup, Aberd. ..."
6. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1893)
"The book will refine and cultivate every hand and mind it touches, and broaden
every bit of knowledge of our kind. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $5. ..."
7. 88 Bis and V. I. H.: Letters from Two Hospitals by Katharine Foote (1919)
"It's every bit as wonderful as one has imagined it, as all really wonderful things
are. April 17. Yesterday I had to go down to Birkenhead and register at ..."
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