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FOR GOOD
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
For a long time without essential change
Example:
he is permanently disabled
Synonyms:
for good; permanently
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Context examples:
For good, too; though, in consequence of my previous emotions, I was still occasionally seized with a stormy sob.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Saturn will reenter Capricorn on July 1 to finish his tour of duty and finally leave for good on December 16, 2020.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The company announced Tuesday it was shutting down production for good in the interest of consumer safety.
(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)
Cholesterol is important for good health and is needed for making cell walls, tissues, hormones, vitamin D, and bile acid.
(Cholesterol, NCI Dictionary)
Professor Challenger replied that he reserved such information for good reasons of his own, but would be prepared to give it with proper precautions to a committee chosen from the audience.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You see, at the commencement of an investigation it is something to know that your client is in close contact with some one who, for good or evil, has an exceptional nature.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But once get used to these slight blemishes and nothing could be more complete, for good sense and good taste had presided over the furnishing, and the result was highly satisfactory.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Her early attachment to herself was very amiable; and her inclination for good company, and power of appreciating what was elegant and clever, shewed that there was no want of taste, though strength of understanding must not be expected.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
