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Most common English words: many « work « too « #127: every » think » life » went

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From Old English ǣfre (“ever”) + ǣlċ (“each”), via Middle English everich. Furthermore, ǣfre itself comes from ā in feore ("ever in life") and ǣlċ itself comes from ā ġelīċ ("ever alike").

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every

  1. All of a countable group, without exception.
    Every person in the room stood and cheered.
  2. Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.
    Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue. The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.
    Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit.

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