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Definition of All the time
1. Adverb. Without respite. "He plays chess day in and day out"
Definition of All the time
1. Adverb. (set phrase duration) Always; constantly; for the complete duration. ¹
2. Adverb. (set phrase frequency) Very often; frequently. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of All The Time
Literary usage of All the time
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"In this combat no man can imagine, unless he had seen and heard, as I did, what
yelling and hideous roaring Apollyon made all the time of the fight—he spake ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by John Tracy Atkyns, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, William Newnam, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1781)
"... another to go on with building f"^'5 a"°'>>« upon his ground, and not fet up
a right till afterwards, when ground, wi-h- he was all the time ..."