"all" meaning in Middle English

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Adverb

IPA: /al/ Forms: al [alternative]
Etymology: From Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz. Etymology templates: {{etymon|enm|:inh|ang:eall|id=main}}, {{inh|enm|ang|eall}} Old English eall, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*all}} Proto-West Germanic *all, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*allaz}} Proto-Germanic *allaz Head templates: {{head|enm|adverb}} all
  1. all (entirely, completely)
    Sense id: en-all-enm-adv-yhxZHeR2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Middle English determiners, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English determiners: 0 0 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 0 0

Determiner

IPA: /al/ Forms: al [alternative]
Etymology: From Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz. Etymology templates: {{etymon|enm|:inh|ang:eall|id=main}}, {{inh|enm|ang|eall}} Old English eall, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*all}} Proto-West Germanic *all, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*allaz}} Proto-Germanic *allaz Head templates: {{head|enm|determiner}} all
  1. all, every Derived forms: alles
    Sense id: en-all-enm-det-toX0Xi35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Middle English determiners, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English determiners: 0 0 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 0 0

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "english": "And when I was amongst you and felt need, I wasn't burdensome to anybody, because brothers who came from Macedonia provided whatever I didn't have. So in everything, I've kept, and will keep, myself from burdening you.",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·ii· 11:9, folio 72, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
          "text": "⁊ whanne I was a mong ȝou ⁊ hadde nede .· I was chargeouſe to no man / foꝛ bꝛiþeren þat camen fro macedonye fulfilliden þat þat failide to me / ⁊ in alle þingis I haue kept and ſchal kepe me wiþouten charge to ȝou",
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