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Any   /ˈɛni/   Listen
adjective
Any  adj., pron.  
1.
One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be. Note: Any is often used in denying or asserting without limitation; as, this thing ought not be done at any time; I ask any one to answer my question. "No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son."
2.
Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it? "Who will show us any good?" Note: It is often used, either in the singular or the plural, as a pronoun, the person or thing being understood; anybody; anyone; (pl.) any persons. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,... and it shall be given him." "That if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem."
At any rate, In any case, whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.



adverb
Any  adv.  To any extent; in any degree; at all. "You are not to go loose any longer." "Before you go any farther."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... strongly developed. She took Beatrice up to the dormitory, showed her where she was to sleep, and gave her a seat on the form beside her at supper, which was almost immediately served. Beatrice noticed that whenever Eularia helped herself to any thing edible, she made the sign of the cross ...
— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt

... went to bed—the cat following him upstairs to her bed in a corner of the room. Clothes are unwholesome superfluities not contemplated in the system of Nature. When we are exhausted, there is no such thing as true repose for us until we are freed from our dress. Men subjected to any excessive exertion—fighting, rowing, walking, working—must strip their bodies as completely as possible, or they are nor equal to the call on them. Ovid's knowledge of his own temperament told him that sleep was not to be hoped for, that night. But the way ...
— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins

... without meeting with any incident. This island was held by the Knights of St. John, the last of those companies of Christian warriors who had once waged war on the infidels in Palestine. Their courage had evaporated in luxurious ease, and their discipline ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... retorted Miss Kybird, raising her voice, "and I don't want any of your impudence. Get ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... contrary the hours had flown. Mrs. Cayhill, left to herself, had all the comfortable sensations of a tippler in the company of his bottle. She could forge ahead, undeterred by any sense of duty; she had not to interrupt herself to laugh at Ephie's wit, nor was she troubled by Johanna's cold eye—that eye which told more plainly than words, how her elder daughter regarded her self-indulgence. Propped up in ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson


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