Meaning of altogethers | Babel Free

Definitions

The way things are; circumstances.

obsolete

Examples

“Well ya sees, Faddah, I knows it's a sin, it is, I knows it is, to watch faeries in their altogethers, if you gets me drift.”

“Armor was expensive, and it probably got in the way when they stripped down to their altogethers and shimmied up trees to drop.”

“Yeah, I could run around the house in my altogethers, do the housework while the kids were in school.”

“Well, well, my lords (quoth the king), take him, and well use him, as hee is worthy to bee, and make no more adoe.” And with that, every man caught him by the hand, and made faire weather of altogethers, which might easilie be done with that man.”

“And they were not past one year in their possessions, but that the reversion of every of them was sold for more years ; some for an hundred pounds, and some for more, and some for less, making sweepstakes of altogethers.”

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