Meanings
- not comparableVery frequently.
It's not every day you see that kind of thing.
- not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of everyday.
Well, and altho’ it sounds quite natural, an every day event, a simple story, that you was by a real templar sav’d, is it the less a miracle?
1790 (date written), G[otthold] E[phraim] Lessing, translated by [William Taylor], Nathan the Wise, a Dramatic Poem, […], Norwich, Norfolk: […] Stevenson and Matchett, […] R. Philips, […], published 1805, →OCLC, page 202 more examples
The Comforter (’tis true) abides for ever in the Saints boſome, but his joys, they come and are gone again quickly. They are as exceedings, with which he feaſts the believer, but the cloth is ſoon drawn, and why ſo, but becauſe we cannot bear them for our every day food?
1656, Will[iam] Gurnall, “The third kinde of spiritual pride, viz. pride of Priviledges”, in The Christian in Compleat Armour. Or, A Treatise of the Saints War against the Devil, […], 2nd edition, 1st part, London: […] Ralph Smith, […], →OCLC, section III, page 303It [discretion] is to the mind what the every day clothing is to the body, requiſite under every viciſſitude to health, and propriety, and comfort.
1797, Thomas Gisborne, “On the Duties of Matrimonial Life”, in An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex, London: […] T[homas] Cadell jun. and W[illiam] Davies […], →OCLC, page 258
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbAs frequently as every day; daily.
Origin
- Middle Englishevery day
- Englishevery day
From Middle English every day.
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