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Definition of All the same
1. Adverb. Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession). "Granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"
Definition of All the same
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of All The Same
Literary usage of All the same
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"I suppose it's shabby to say it, but it's true all the same : he was a very costly
guest, and I wasn't disposed, like Charles the Bold or that other famous ..."
2. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"¡tern, That they ought and must repute, hold and take all the same things for
the most Holy, most sure and most certain and infallible words of God. and ..."
3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1849)
"... it will, I think, thence follow, that either the sinner must have all the same
individual particles vitally united to his soul when he is raised, ..."
4. An Exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1890)
"L'" j having all the same expectation, may well be reputed the same Church.
And this is the unity of hope. Fifthly, They which are all of one mind, ..."
5. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale (1849)
"men, there was none to stop them ; for with regard to the former they esteemed
it all the same whether they worshipped them or not, ..."