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Definition of Every inch
1. Adverb. In every way; completely. "He was every inch a statesman"
Definition of Every inch
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) totally, completely ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Every Inch
Literary usage of Every inch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"every inch a Soldier IT is rightly accounted a most creditable achievement when
an American, in time of war or peace, advances, in either the regular army ..."
2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"We will now glance shortly at a second and contemporaneous phasis of Friedrich's
affairs. intends to be Practical withal, and every inch a King. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... Intends to be Practical withal, and every inch a King Friedrich is far indeed
from thinking to reduce his Army, as the Foreign Editor imagines. ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"1740] Intends to be Practical withal, and every inch a King Friedrich is far
indeed from thinking to reduce his Army, as the Foreign Editor imagines. ..."
5. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... AD 1580. were it true, I wonder that Campian (every inch as — religious as
Briant) had not the same miraculous favour indulged to him. ..."
6. American States, Churches, and Slavery by Joshua Rhodes Balme (1862)
"... and limb," responded the trader, " But strip her naked, and examine every inch
of her, if you wish, for I never have any disguises with my customers. ..."
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