every body

pronoun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see every, body.

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Meanings

pronoun
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of everybody.

    Afraid of every body, ashamed of herself, and longing for the home she had left, she knew not how to look up, and could scarcely speak to be heard, or without crying.

    1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 22
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see every, body.

    Nevertheless – all William’s enquiries were channeled through the presidential office – the authorities were anxious to exhume every body buried since the coup and arrange them for inspection.

    1990, Alan Judd, Tango, New York, N.Y.: Summit Books, →ISBN, page 291
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    142.5 Disposition after dissection. The remains of every body received for scientific purposes under this chapter shall be decently buried or cremated after it has been used for said purposes, and a failure to do so shall be a misdemeanor.

    1947, The Department of Health, compiler, Health Laws, Opinions and Court Decisions, Des Moines, Ia.: The State of Iowa, page 34

    “He wants to donate his body to science. Apparently they only take skinny bodies…something about it being hard to store human fat. It’s odd. I would have thought every body was of some use or interest to science.”

    2017, Sulari Gentill, Crossing the Lines, Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 153
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