every

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ǣfre ǣlċ, ǣfre ǣġhwelċ (“each and every”), equivalent to ever + each and/or ever + which.

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1. All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
   Every person in the room stood and cheered.
   Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth. 2013-06-07, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
2. Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
   We stopped for refreshments every ten miles.
   The alarm is going off every few minutes.
   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; that is, ten per cent of soldiers were killed.
3. (with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.
   We wish you every happiness in the future.
   I have every confidence in him.
   There is every reason why we should not go.
   The police will make every effort to trace the missing girl.