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every thing

  1. Obsolete form of everything.
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility [], volume I, London: [] C[harles] Roworth, [], and published by T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, page 6:
      [] he promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable.
    • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “In which is Given a Faithful Portraiture of Two Distinguished Persons; []”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, [], published 1837, →OCLC, page 151:
      His wardrobe was extensive—very extensive—not strictly classical perhaps, nor quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but every thing was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles?
    • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram[1], published 2009:
      The old man and his wife bestirred themselves to make every thing ready for the unexpected guests, []