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Everyman|ˈɛvrɪmæn|
[Name of the leading character in a 15th-c. morality play.]
The ordinary or typical human being. Also attrib.
1906(title) Everyman's Library. 1914Scotsman 22 Oct. 1/2 The ‘Everyman’ Belgian Relief Fund. 1929R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 1337 Nor might he escape the fall of Ev'ryman. 1930Ess. by Divers Hands IX. 49 Everyman's rhyme—‘Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear’—does well enough for Philip-sober. 1930D. L. Morse-Boycott (title) God and Everyman. 1935Discovery Mar. 74/2 A concession to the stumbling steps of Everyman, who knows nothing of biology. 1964English Studies XLV. 354 He is not presenting us with an Everyman figure. |