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All and sundry

Sundry \Sun"dry\, a. [OE. sundry, sondry, AS. syndrig, fr. sundor asunder. See Sunder, v. t.]

  1. Several; divers; more than one or two; various. ``Sundry wines.''
    --Chaucer. ``Sundry weighty reasons.''
    --Shak.

    With many a sound of sundry melody.
    --Chaucer.

    Sundry foes the rural realm surround.
    --Dryden.

  2. Separate; diverse. [Obs.]

    Every church almost had the Bible of a sundry translation.
    --Coleridge.

    All and sundry, all collectively, and each separately.

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all and sundry

pron. (context collectively English) all; everyone.

Usage examples of "all and sundry".

Manfred enters a monastery and the hero, a young and noble-looking lad who spends his days in the subterranean vaults of the castle, occupying himself with saving the life of all and sundry and finally turning out to be (surprise!

And somehow after that the Greatjon became Robb's right hand, his staunchest champion, loudly telling all and sundry that the boy lord was a Stark after all, and they'd damn well better bend their knees if they didn't fancy having them chewed off.

But at the point that Ginny acquired bodyguards he didn't control and was talking loudly to all and sundry as well as the media .

When he wasn't speechifying or paying calls, he was writing letters to all and sundry.

Begged to heal all and sundry, then shunned for fear of ghosts or contamination or plain spite!

Hunter had been regaling all and sundry with this story for the past few days: how he'd been roused by the hotel manager, how he'd come downstairs with a massive hangover, to find this kid in the lobby clutching her suitcase.

Quick-tongued Tarvold, as he was subsequently known to all and sundry, went down in history as being the man first to doubt, and then to proclaim, Melliandra's baby as the true heir to Bren.

The insidious tactics of Morgan, who used his role of assistant to the D-G to manipulate all and sundry, were well known.

Bertie, blind to everything but the need to keep it from the Queen's ears, and asses like Coventry and Williams, might suppose that the vows of silence sworn by all and sundry would prove binding - honour and all that, you know.

Unlike most assignments, this one offered a fee to all and sundry who wished to take up the challenge.

Old Granite had made very clear to all and sundry that he thought very little of his wife’.

We could have become great traders and skinned all and sundry until they got wise to us.