Lexic.us

Definition of In any case

1. Adverb. Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. "But at any rate he got a knighthood for it"

2. Adverb. Making an additional point; anyway. "She couldn't shelter behind him all the time and in any case he wasn't always with her"

Definition of In any case

1. Adverb. at any rate, anyhow ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of In Any Case

in all in all honesty in all its branches in all likelihood in all my born days in all one's glory in all probability in altissimo in an arch manner in an editorial

in an elaborate way in and an in and of itself in antis in any case (current term) in any event in any way, shape, or form in apposition in arrears in at the deep end

in attendance(p) in awe of in back of in ballast in ballast condition in baulk in bed with in behalf of

Literary usage of In any case

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"And in any case Isidore s legislation thereon never became the practice. One of the most characteristic peculiarities of the false decretals is the ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"It is not competent for a court, nor for the marshal, as agent for that court, nor for 622*] the auctioneer, as agent of *Uie marshal, in any case to charge ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"... and not made with a view to pending litigation, are admissible in evidence in any case." The converse of this proposition is equally true. ..."

4. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience. SEC. 7. The ancient mode of trial by jury shall be held sacred, and the right ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"in any case, then, the observational and experimental sciences are, in respect to certainty and exactness, hopelessly inferior to mathematics. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"204). the everlasting life-heresy and the let-us-eat-and-drink-for-to- morrow-we-die-heresy.1 This may be so, but in any case the division of craving would ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"It is at least as likely, under the circumstances of the time, that it was a peaceful grant. But in any case it was the beginning of the process which ..."

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