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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anything \A"ny*thing\, adv In any measure; anywise; at all Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed. --Robynson (More's Utopia). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anything \A"ny*thing\, n. 1. Any object, act state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind something or other aught; as I would not do it for anything Did you ever know of anything so unlucky? --A. Trollope They do not know that anything is amiss with them --W. G. Sumner. 2. Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like [Colloq. or Lowx] I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything --Richardson. Note: Any thing written as two words is now commonly used in contradistinction to any person or anybody. Formerly it was also separated when used in the wider sense ``Necessity drove them to undertake any thing and venture any thing.'' --De Foe. {Anything but}, not at all or in any respect. ``The battle was a rare one and the victory anything but secure.'' --Hawthorne. {Anything like}, in any respect; at all as I can not give anything like a fair sketch of his trials.
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