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Ev'ry

//ɛvɹi// det

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  1. 1
    Every. poetic

    "America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!"

Etymology

Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe to pronounce the word as two syllables for poetic reasons.

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