all in all

Definitions

1. 1

   Generally, all things considered

   • All in all, it's not a bad little restaurant.
   • All in all, an enjoyable day.
2. 2

   Altogether, in all, with everything included

   • There were twenty absentees all in all.
3. 3

   Altogether, wholly, in every way

   • And I perceived no touch of change, ⁠No hint of death in all his frame, ⁠But found him all in all the same, […]
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   1. 4

      Everything that matters

      Everything that matters; the only thing of importance.

      • […] to realize, by constant faith, the all-sufficiency of his redeeming power and love — to make him all his salvation and all his desire, the Alpha and Omega of all his hope, his all in all.
      • You saw us all in happier days before he married me. I was all in all then to him; or would he have given up his fortune, his family, as he nobly did to make me happy?
      • Her mother had been all in all to her: she had never seemed to have any separate existence from that of her child.

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