What does for all the world mean?

for all the world

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.77 in modern English

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"[…] not a ha'porth of him left but a goodish piece of his skin, just for all the world like a hedgehog's, and a piece o' old iron furbished up."
"[…] Phil offering and giving advice sagely and gravely, for all the world as though he had been old enough to be this young woman's father […]"
"[…] the babies looking for all the world as though they had stepped out of pictures by Gian Bellini or by Fra Bartolommeo, that greatest of baby painters."

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