Lexic.us

Definition of Above all

1. Adverb. Above and beyond all other consideration. "Above all, you must be independent"

2. Adverb. Taking everything together. "She was first and last a scientist"

Definition of Above all

1. Adverb. Of prime importance; before anything else; especially. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Above All

about to about turn aboute aboutness aboutnesses abouts above-board above-cited above-line above-mentioned

above-named above-stairs above-the-fold above-water above all (current term) above and beyond above average above board above ground above measure

above one's bend above one's paygrade above oneself above proof above stairs above the curve above the fold above the law above the line

Literary usage of Above all

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XXI That we must rest in God above all goods add gifts ABOVE all things and in all things thou shalt rest alway in the Lord, O my soul, ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER XXI That we must rest in God above all goods and gifts ABOVE all things and in all things thou shalt rest alway in the Lord, O my soul, ..."

3. The Imitation of Christ: Four Books by Thomas (1877)
"That we must rest in God above all goods and gifts. ABOVE all things and in all things thou shalt rest alway in the Lord O my soul, for He Himself is the ..."

4. The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan, James Solas Dodd (1795)
"The intrusion of such thoughts should excite us to greater earnestness in prayer, pious meditations, or adoring praises; for this, above all other things, ..."

5. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"above all, as I have implied, the man who goes alone can start today ; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a ..."

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