for good and all
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.92 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a way that is conclusive and final.
Example Sentences
- "hauing prepared a like feather to the same, of some other Hawke or fowle, resembling the broken feather: you muste cutte the quyll of it, and so force it togyther, as it maye enter the broken quyll of the Hawkes feather, annoynting it before you thruste it in, or seeme to place it for good and all, in the gummie fatte of a fygge"
- "It is so long since the reader […] has been parted from the midwife, that it is high time to mention her again to him, merely to put him in mind that there is such a body still in the world, and whom […] I am going to introduce to him for good and all:"
- "“Come,” said Gamfield; “say four pound, gen’lmen. Say four pound, and you’ve got rid of him for good and all. There!”"
- "‘It gets worse and worse the further we go,’ said Acorn. ‘Where are we going and how long will it be before some of us stop running for good and all?’"
- "[…] we gonna talk this through for good and all."