Determiner

(en determiner)

Each of the two; one and the other.

* (Bible), (w) xxi. 27

Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

* (1678-1751)

He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both , because he is prepared for both.

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Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample

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(obsolete) Each of more than two.

* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.

Determiner

(en determiner)

At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.

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*Bible, (w) xi. 27

*:No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

No matter what kind.

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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}