anywise

[en-ee-wahyz]

adverb

1. in any way or respect.

anywise

/ ˈɛnɪˌwaɪz /

adverb

1. in any way or manner; at all

Word History and Origins

Origin of anywise¹

before 1000; Middle English ani wise, Old English on ǣnige wīsan in any wise. See any, wise ²

Example Sentences

Even Douglass, however, ultimately reached a positive verdict on Lincoln’s public acts and private attitudes, calling him “one of the very few Americans, who could entertain a negro and converse with him without in anywise reminding him of the unpopularity of his color.”

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But by this time he had ripped his ceiling-cloth down, and the grey incoming day was suddenly darkened again as he ploughed across the talus of debris and made a wall of cloth, fastening it anywise from beam to beam.

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We need not go into the question of how impressions are produced upon the mind, through the medium of the eye; whether a species of picture of the object be, during the inspection, as it were painted upon the retina; and whether that be inverted or anywise different from the real object; or whether, and to what extent, association rectifies the imperfections of our sight.

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In any measure; anywise; at all.

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But ought not the Magistrates, the Guardians, the Protectors, the political Fathers of the People interpose, and defend them from this Danger, by severely prohibiting the Entrance of such pernicious Fellows into a Country, where Mens' Lives are very estimable, and where Money is scarce; since they extinguish the first, and carry off the last, without the least Possibility of their being in anywise useful to it.

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