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Definition of All-out
1. Adjective. Using all available resources. "A full-scale campaign against nuclear power plants"
Definition of All-out
1. Adjective. using every available means ¹
2. Adjective. covering all aspects without exception ¹
3. Adverb. In a manner in which one uses every available means, sparing no effort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of All-out
Literary usage of All-out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... at the University—that when they were inside his lodgings, he said : " Thank
God, you're all in," and when they were gone; "Thank God, you're all out. ..."
2. A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1836)
"that endureth and beareth all things; which Word of patience the devil, and the
world, and all his instruments can never wear out; it will wear them all out ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"But it is no marvel, when we see all out as great effects amongst Christians
themselves ; how are those Anabaptists, Arians, and Papists above the rest, ..."
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"... my compliments to dear Mrs. Boswell; and tell her, that I hope to be wanting
in nothing that I can contribute to bring you all out of your troubles. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"ЛИ out! all out! Start up the engine's rattling wheels, , Foreman, ... J All out
1 all out!' WE have had occasion, two or three times recently, ..."
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