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Definition of For all the world
1. Adverb. Under any circumstances. "She wouldn't give up her pets for love or money"
Definition of For all the world
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Entirely, to all appearances. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of For All The World
Literary usage of For all the world
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... that no man coude know His speche ne his vois, though men it herd. And in his
gère, for all the world he ferd Nought only like the lovers maladie Of ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"A refractory vassal might brow-heat the king's justice, hut when he had to appear
on certain days before the Chief Forester, for all the world like a ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... with coats and doublets with deep skirts, just, for all the world, like mine;
and buttoned their doublets up the breast, ..."
4. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"... for all the world, the United States excepted. In ihe United States, the result
has been entirely different. The reduction in ihe market value of the ..."
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