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ABOVE ALL
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Above and beyond all other consideration
Example:
above all, you must be independent
Synonyms:
above all; most especially; most importantly
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Taking everything together
Example:
she was first and last a scientist
Synonyms:
above all; first and last
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Context examples:
But you won't peach unless they get the black spot on me, or unless you see that Black Dog again or a seafaring man with one leg, Jim—him above all.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He must have lost his head, or he never would have left the stick or, above all, burned the cheque book.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But no indiscretion, and, above all, no violence.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of her once more stopping, and looking back, and hurrying to Agnes, and giving Agnes, above all the others, her last kisses and farewells.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Above all, never let them get you prisoner while there is a cartridge left—that's my last word to you, young fellah.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But you,—you above all, above my mother, had been wronged by me.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But, above all things, my dear Catherine, do not be in a hurry.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
No: I fear discovery above all things; and whatever disclosure would lead to it, I avoid.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The elegance, propriety, regularity, harmony, and perhaps, above all, the peace and tranquillity of Mansfield, were brought to her remembrance every hour of the day, by the prevalence of everything opposite to them here.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
