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any and all

any and all determiner: all without exception.

Determiner

any and all

  1. All without exception.
    • Resolved, By the House of Representatives, that the President of the United States be respectfully requested to inform this House—
      […] Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited...1847 December 22, Abraham Lincoln, "Spot Resolutions" on Mexican War (resolutions offered in the United States House of Representatives), reproduced in 1907, Marion Mills Miller (editor), Life and...
    • I, Howard P. Lovecraft of the city of Providence in the State of Rhode Island, being of sound mind and memory, make, execute and declare this instrument as my last will, hereby revoking any and all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.1912 August 12, H. P. Lovecraft, Last Will and Testament of H.P. Lovecraft

Synonyms of any and all

Forms of any and all

alternative formany-and-all

Origin of any and all

Used in legal documents for emphasis and exactness. For further etymology, see any and all.

Questions about any and all

What does any and all mean?
Any and all means all without exception.
What part of speech is any and all?
Any and all is a determiner.

Words near any and all in the dictionary

  1. anxiousness
  2. anxiousnesses
  3. anxitie
  4. anxom
  5. any
  6. any and all
  7. any and every
  8. any body
  9. any day
  10. any day now
  11. any day of the week

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