different between every vs severy

English

Alternative forms

• ev’ry (poetic)
• euery (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ?fre ?l?, ?fre ??hwil?, ?fre ?ehwil? (“each and every”), equivalent to ever +? each and/or ever +? which.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??v.(?.)?i/
• Hyphenation: eve?ry, ev?e?ry

Determiner

every

1. All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
2. Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.

3. (with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.

   We wish you every happiness in the future.

   I have every confidence in him.

   There is every reason why we should not go.

Synonyms

• each
• (slang) e'ry

Antonyms

• no
• none

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ibri

Translations

See also

• all
• each

Anagrams

• veery, verye, y'ever

Middle English

Adjective

every

1. Alternative form of everich
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 3-4.

     And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

     Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

English

Noun

severy (plural severies)

1. A baldacchin.
2. (architecture) A compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
   • 1866, Robert Willis, The Architectural History of Glastonbury Abbey, page 56,

     A handsome flight of steps, extending across the whole from wall to wall, occupied nearly the whole of the eastern severy, and led up from the pavement of this building to the great west door of the church, which terminates the interior eastward, and was designed and built in connection with it.

   • 1968, Paul Frankl, James Francis O'Gorman, Principles of Architectural History: The Four Phases of Architectural Style, 1420-1900, page 64,

     Cylindrical severies would have no place between these arches.

   • 1982, Thomas E. Polk, Saint-Denis, Noyon and the Early Gothic Choir: Methodological Considerations for the History of Early Gothic Architecture, Volume 1, page 42,

     Because the two wall arches of each chapel are not centrally located in relation to the vault severies above them (27), these severies are asymmetrical (Illustrations 16 and 21).

Synonyms

• civery