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everywaysadv.

Brit. /ˌɛvrᵻˈweɪz/, /ˈɛvrᵻweɪz/, U.S. /ˈɛv(ə)riˌweɪz/
Forms: see every adj. and pron. and -ways comb. form.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: every adj., -ways comb. form.
Etymology: < every adj. + -ways comb. form. Compare earlier anyways adv. and every way adv. Compare also always adv., someways adv., otherways adv.Especially in earlier use often written as two words or with hyphen. (Word division in Middle English examples frequently reflects editorial choices of modern editors of texts, rather than the practice of the manuscripts.)
Now colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
1. In every direction.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > in all directions
everywaysa1398
every whitherwarda1398
every wayc1400
everywhither1495
allwhither1878
omnidirectionally1950
whichways1961
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iv. iv. 143 Þe bodyes eueriche weyes beþ hihe, grete, longe, and brode.
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 179 If any man do stande on a plaine grounde or on the sea, he maye see rounde about him euery waies 22 myles and a halfe.
1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline ii. 110 You must place 6. ranks of pikes .19. in ranke euerie waies, which comes to 500. & 12.
1661 R. Flecknoe Erminia iii. iii. 45 Y'ave elevated again your fair and long dejected eyes..; whilst you cast them every wayes about to look for him, I hope a glance at least may light on me.
1698 W. Salmon Ars Chirurgica iii. xxxvi. 693/1 A Cancer is a preternatural Tumor,..; having great and eminent Veins every-ways round about it.
1705 W. Coward Abramideis i. 43 Phœbus not half so soon dispenses Rays As She infection scatter'd every ways.
1758 E. Stone in tr. N. Bion Constr. & Principal Uses Math. Instruments (ed. 2) Suppl. 276 The Arch or Limb of the Quadrant consists of two (every ways) equal quadrantal Arches laid upon one another.
1891 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 4 Oct. 1/3 Their heads were bobbing out of harmony, sideways and everyways, like so many reeds in a brisk wind.
1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 269 When I walked by them they cried out that I was one Ahasuerus, a Jew, condemned, as they believe, to live for ever, and they fled from me everyways.
1917 Harper's Bazaar Nov. 126/3 Lookin' every ways except up.
1981 P. Theroux Mosquito Coast (2006) 228 Them people jump everyways and we ain't get a dum bit of peace.
2. In every respect; (also) in every manner or way. Now rare.
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1536 Bp. J. Longland Serm. Good Fryday sig. Liv Iesus Christe shewed and proued hymselfe euery wayes bothe in his natiuitie, in hys lyffe, in hys deathe..to be veraye god.
1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon v. iv. sig. G.iiiiv Wt painefull pangs, torment her euerye wayes.
1646 R. Overton Defiance against Arbitrary Usurpations 22 Those Bishops were every wayes more potent and powerfull then these Lords Temporall are now.
a1667 H. Hare tr. G. F. Loredano Ascents of Soul (1681) 36 With Raillery, and Scorn, have they attacked my Obedience... Every-ways they did so batter my Faith.
1731 T. Hearne Vindic. 98 He was every ways fit for Government.
1852 C. Dickens Bleak House (1853) xix. 190 ‘I'm everyways agreeable, sir,’ says the hapless Jo.
1885 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 96/1 He was wan Murty O'Hea, a broken farmer, and a bad mimber everyways.
1904 Outlook 5 Mar. 595/2 He can..smoke same's a chimbly ef he wants, or lay down ef he takes a notion, and jest take his comfort everyways.
1941 Slave Narr. (Federal Writers' Project WPA) XV. 70 It's Truth..sets us free. And that makes me a free-born citizen bothways and every ways.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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