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everyway, adv.|ˈɛvərɪ-, ˈɛvrɪweɪ|
[Cf. alway, anyway: sometimes written as two words.]
1. a. In every manner or way; in every direction. b. In every respect.
a.1570Levins Manip. 197 Eueryway, omni modo, quauis. 1580Baret Alv. E 376 Square euerie way, quo⁓quo versus quadratum. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 398 A Deity residing in the midst of an universe, infinitely extended every way. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 34 The everyway external stream.
b.1601Shakes. Jul. C. iv. iii. 55 You wrong me every way: You wrong me Brutus. 1615Bedwell Moham, Imp. ii. §57 The contrary..opinion is euery way without any shew of probability. 1749Fielding Tom Jones iv. ii, Her mind was every way equal to her person. 1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 169 A wide and everyway most important interval.
quasi-adj.1628Hakewill in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 399 Sir Thomas Bodley of whose..every way sufficiency, I have had a long trial.
2. Comb. (nonce-wds.)
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 475 A clock..with everyway-multiform-exquisitely-mechanical circumstances belonging to it. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 320 Every-way-at-once-ish eyes.
Hence everywayness (nonce-wd.), the quality of extending in every direction.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 103 His everywayness or immensity is the same. |