adv. [repr. two distinct ME. compounds. 1. Ever-ywhere, f. EVER + YWHERE (OE. ʓehwǽr) anywhere, everywhere. 2. Every-where, f. EVERY (ME. everilk) + WHERE. Formerly often written separately.]
1. In every place; also in narrower sense, in every part (of a limited space, of a book, an author’s writings, etc.).
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 200. Auh ȝe euerihwar, hwarse ich go swuðest forð, bileaue ȝe þe lengure.
a. 1225. Leg. Kath., 681. Þi leofmon & ti lauerd … is mit te eauerihwer.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 5567 (Gött.). Ouer-all his kingriche euerilk-quar [c. 1340 Trin. euery where]. Ibid. (c. 1340), 18001 (Trin.). What maner is þat ihesus Þat werreþ on þe euerywhore.
1413. Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, III. x. (1483), 56. Suche noyse and crye euery where sownyd allas.
c. 1590. Marlowe, Faust., Wks. (Rtldg.), 85/1. I may be here and there and everywhere.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., III. ii. § 18. Motion … must be alike everywhere in it [matter].
1692. E. Walker, trans. Epictetus’ Mor., xiv. 18.
| No entrance of the Foe you need to fear, | |
| You’ll find th’ Avenues guarded every where. |
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. Introd. I every-where use these Words in the Senses here ascribed to them.
1850. McCosh, Div. Govt., I. ii. (1874), 39. We discover everywhere signs of littleness and restlessness.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xix. 136. The horizontal stratification is everywhere beautifully shown.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 116. Irresistible here, as everywhere in Plato, in his intellectual superiority.
† 2. quasi-adj. All-pervading. Obs. rare–1.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 31. Eternity is said to be an everlasting now, and immensity as an every where cleavelesness.
Hence Everywhereness, ubiquity, omnipresence. rare.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 32. Neither of them would come any nearer to everlastingness, or everywhereness, than the shortest and the least do.
1839. Bailey, Festus, xx. (1848), 70/1. Poetry is not confined to books, For the creative spirit … hath God’s everywhereness.
