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English
Etymology
From any + adverbial genitive of way (compare always).
Pronunciation
Adverb
anyways (not comparable)
- (rare) In any way or respect, at all.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:it behoves them […] to remove all objects, causes, companies, occasions, as may anyways molest him […].
1851, Church Wardens of Burlington, “The Church Wardens &c. of Burlington to the Honourable Society. Burlington, 28th, 1715”, in Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society, volume 1, →OCLC, page 76:...we are bound to assert that we never heard either in his public discourses or private conversation, anything that might tend towards encouraging sedition, or anyways insolencing the government
- (conjunctive, informal, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Anyway, anyhow, in any case.
1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “book 2, chapter 12”, in Our Mutual Friend. , volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1865, →OCLC:"Anyways," said the damsel, "I am glad punishment followed, and I say so."
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