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Adverb

in every sense of the word (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Used to add emphasis
    • 1904 November, Fritz Cunliffe-Owen, “Germany's Next Emperor”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 32, number 2, page 225:
      The prince is not a prig, nor yet a milksop, but in every sense of the word a manly young fellow .
    • 1951, Herbert William Natzke, The constitutional dictatorship of Dr. Heinrich Bruening:
      He declared further that the depression had precipitated a crisis of democracy in every sense of the word.
    • 1952, Report - Republic of South Africa, Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope, Dept. of Nature Conservation, page 68:
      The East London Museum's motto, "No time like the present", has throughout the year been lived up to in every sense of the word.

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