Meaning of on all counts | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, count.
2. In every possible way or in every case.

Examples

““Guilty, on all counts,” the foreman of the jury read.”

“Marketwise, they move with interest rates, and hence provide the maximum safety on all counts.”

“Moreover, the Duke, Lear, and Prospero are all put in positions where they must consider the choice between revenge and mercy; and on all counts the choice is for mercy.”

“The WHO classification is satisfactory on all counts.”

“Edward VIII, the princess’s favourite uncle, precipitated the monarchy’s most severe constitutional crisis of the 20th century by abdicating the throne in order to marry Wallis Simpson, the twice divorced American regarded as unsuitable on all counts.”

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