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Definition of All in all
1. Adverb. With everything considered (and neglecting details). "All in all, it's not so bad"
Definition of All in all
1. Adverb. (context: modal set phrase) Generally, all things considered ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of All In All
Literary usage of All in all
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Allan Menzies, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"But afterwards it will be freed from the bondage of corruption, when they shall
have received the glory of the sons of God, and God shall be all in all. ..."
2. The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament: Being an Attempt at by George V. Wigram (1870)
"And when all things shall be — unto him that put all things under him, that God
may be all in all. 30. why stand we in jeopardy every hour? 39. ..."
3. The Practical Works by David Clarkson (1865)
"Look through these, upon him who is all in all. They have not only their life,
their being, but their motion from him. All in the world seem on wheels, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"ALL-IN-ALL. Everything. Shakespeare has the phrase in a well-known passage,
Hamlet, i. 2, and several other places. In London she buye« her head, her face, ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"... all in all ;" which supposeth him in some sense to be so. Notwithstanding which,
this is a very ticklish point, and easily liable to mistake and abuse: ..."
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