Meanings
adverbout and out (not comparable)
- datednot comparableCompletely; thoroughly.
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1921, Bernadotte Perrin (translator), "Tiberius and Caius Gracchus", Plutarch's Lives, Loeb Classics However, he soon saw that the senate was hostile to him out and out, and that the good will of Fannius towards him had lost his edge, and therefore again began to attach the multitude to himself by other laws […]
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out and out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20and%20out
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“out and out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20and%20out. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “out and out,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20and%20out.
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