Ev'ry
//ɛvɹi// det
det ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Determiner
- 1 Every. poetic
"America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!"
Example
More examples"Ev'ry day I love you just a little bit more."
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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