for best

prepositional phrase

for good; permanently

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. obsoletefor good; permanently

    Those constitutions […] are now established for best, and not to be mended.

    1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC
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