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Definition of At large

1. Adjective. Having escaped, especially from confinement. "Criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"

2. Adverb. In a general fashion. "He talked at large about his plans"

Definition of At large

1. Adjective. (idiomatic) On the loose; roaming freely; not confined. ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) In full, fully. ¹

3. Adjective. In general; as a whole. ¹

4. Adjective. (US politics of an election) Having an electorate across multiple districts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of At Large

at first sight at full speed at full stretch at full throttle at full tilt at gaze at grade at gunpoint at hand at hand(p)

at heart at home at issue at issue(a) at knifepoint at large (current term) at large(ip) at large(p) at last at latter Lammas

at least at leisure at leisure(p) at length at liberty(p) at loggerheads at long last at loose ends at most at night

Literary usage of At large

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"CHAPTER V NECESSITY OF EXAMINING THE CONDITION OF THE STATES BEFORE THAT OF THE UNION at large IT is proposed to examine in the following chapter what is ..."

2. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"To the people at large the tyranny simply became more BC 514. pressive. oppressive, and Hippias, after his brother's death living deposed in great fear, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... but some point of contact among specialists in the different sciences and with the public at large must be found, or the whole system will fail from too ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... domain of canon law at large. Even prior to that publication he had given his attention to Luther's marriage law, and he incorporated his Luthers ..."

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