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almost (iou)



almost adverb & adjective. OE.
[from ALL + MOST adverb.]
adjective or adverb. Mostly all; for the most part. OE-M17.
R. Ascham Thies giuers were almost Northmen.
adverb. Very nearly; all but; as the nearest thing to. ME.
Donne One might almost say, her body thought. Swift Eyes with Reading almost blind. Robert Watson His affairs almost never prospered. Byron To lose the hour would make her quite a martyr, And they had wasted now almost a quarter. V. Woolf Almost one might imagine them..questioning and wondering. E. Hemingway I stood until it had almost passed, then jumped and caught the rear hand-rods. W. Trevor A single window reached almost to the floor.
b. adverb or adjective. Close to being, near. arch. M16.
Southey I am..an almost Quaker.
c. Used to intensify a rhetorical interrogative. L16-M18.
R. South Whom almost can we see who opens his arms to his enemies?