"ev'ry" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe to pronounce the word as two syllables for poetic reasons.",
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      "expansion": "ev'ry",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "det",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Katharine Lee Bates, \"America the Beautiful\", first published as \"Pikes Peak\", The Congregationalis, July 4th, 1895)",
          "text": "America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, Cole Porter, “There Must Be Someone for Me”, in The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, published 1992, page 345:",
          "text": "There’s a boy snail for ev’ry girl snail, There’s a boy quail for ev’ry girl quail/ There’s a boy mouse for ev’ry girl mouse, There’s a boy grouse for ev’ry girl grouse",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, John Lennon, \"It Won't Be Long\", in Alan Aldridge, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1991) p. 185",
          "text": "Ev’ry night when ev’rybody has fun, here am I sitting all on my own."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Every."
      ],
      "id": "en-ev'ry-en-det-nHB~U~nE",
      "links": [
        [
          "Every",
          "every"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) Every."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛvɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛvɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛvɹi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ev'ry"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe to pronounce the word as two syllables for poetic reasons.",
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "determiner",
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      },
      "expansion": "ev'ry",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ev'ry",
      "name": "en-det"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "det",
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        "English determiners",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English poetic terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛvɹi"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Katharine Lee Bates, \"America the Beautiful\", first published as \"Pikes Peak\", The Congregationalis, July 4th, 1895)",
          "text": "America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, Cole Porter, “There Must Be Someone for Me”, in The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, published 1992, page 345:",
          "text": "There’s a boy snail for ev’ry girl snail, There’s a boy quail for ev’ry girl quail/ There’s a boy mouse for ev’ry girl mouse, There’s a boy grouse for ev’ry girl grouse",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, John Lennon, \"It Won't Be Long\", in Alan Aldridge, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1991) p. 185",
          "text": "Ev’ry night when ev’rybody has fun, here am I sitting all on my own."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Every."
      ],
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        [
          "Every",
          "every"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) Every."
      ],
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        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛvɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɛvɹi/",
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        "US"
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      "rhymes": "-ɛvɹi"
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  ],
  "word": "ev'ry"
}