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EitherEither Ei"ther (?; 277), a. & pron. [OE. either, aither, AS.
?g?er, ?ghw[ae]?er (akin to OHG. ?ogiwedar, MHG. iegeweder);
[=a] + ge + hw[ae]?er whether. See Each, and Whether, and
cf. Or, conj.]
1. One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two
things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flattered; but he
neither loves, Nor either cares for him. --Shak.
Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of
the three. --Bacon.
There have been three talkers in Great British,
either of whom would illustrate what I say about
dogmatists. --Holmes.
2. Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly,
also, each of any number.
His flowing hair In curls on either cheek played.
--Milton.
On either side . . . was there the tree of life.
--Rev. xxii.
2.
The extreme right and left of either army never
engaged. --Jowett
(Thucyd). Either
Either Ei"ther, conj. Either
precedes two, or more, co["o]rdinate words or phrases, and is
introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a
journey, or peradventure he sleepeth. --1 Kings
xviii. 27.
Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a
triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where
we are, proceed, or recede. --Latham.
Note: Either was formerly sometimes used without any
correlation, and where we should now use or.
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive
berries? either a vine, figs?? --James iii.
12.
Meaning of Either from wikipedia
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Either/or and
related terms may
refer to:
Either/Or (Kierkegaard book), an
influential book by
philosopher Søren
Kierkegaard Either/Or (Batuman novel)...
- Look up
either way in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Either Way may
refer to:
Either way or
hybrid offence, in
criminal law
Either Way (film), a 2011...
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Either/Or is the
third studio album by
American singer-songwriter
Elliott Smith.
Either/Or was
recorded in
several locations,
mostly in Portland, Oregon...
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triable either way, or
wobbler is one of the
special class offences in the
common law
jurisdictions where the case may be
prosecuted either summarily...
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Either Or And is an
album by
British jazz
saxophonist Evan
Parker and
Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier,
which was
recorded in
studio after their 2013 performance...
- mathematics, the
either–or
topology is a
topological structure defined on the
closed interval [−1, 1] by
declaring a set open if it
either does not contain...
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Either/Or (Danish:
Enten – Eller) is the
first published work of
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It
appeared in two
volumes in 1843
under the pseudonymous...
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dilemmas may be due to the
tendency to
simplify reality by
ordering it
through either-or-statements,
which is to some
extent already built into
human language...
- In
political communication, the
phrase "you are
either with us, or
against us" and
similar variations are used to
generate polarisation and
reject non-partisanship...
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Either/Or is the
second novel from
Turkish American writer Elif Batuman. The
novel is a bildungsroman,
continuing the
story of Selin, the
narrator of Batuman's...
