universally

Etymology

From Middle English universally; equivalent to universal + -ly.

adv

  1. In a universal manner.
    My experience of the people was that they were universally polite, civil, and clean, and during the whole time I spent in the country, I only saw one drunken man. 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 12
    If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] . 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
  2. By everyone or by the vast majority of people.
    The movie was universally praised by its audience.

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