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adverb

Quite adv.

Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken. "Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will." "The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles."

To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably. "Quite amusing." "He really looks quite concerned." "The island stretches along the land and is quite close to it."

verb

Quite v. t. & v. i. See Quit. (Obs.)

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"Quite" Quotes from Famous Books

... go sell all [Vulg.: 'what'] thou hast and give to the poor." Hence it is clear that to lack worldly wealth belongs to the perfection of Christian life. Now those who possess something in common do not lack worldly wealth. Therefore it would seem that they do not quite reach to the perfection of ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic. It is a caterpillar with wings, and not yet a butterfly. In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial. This generosity abides with Shakspeare. We say, from the truth and closeness of his pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart. Yet there is not a trace ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord

... have heard nothing of what has passed." (Here I was mistaken, for as he told me afterwards he had heard everything through the door which was not quite closed.) "It is needful, Bes, that you should repeat truly all that happened at the court of the King of kings before and after I was brought ...

— The Ancient Allan • H. Rider Haggard

... Montenegrin army in such a great war as was now begun was slight, however, for in numbers it did not amount even to a full army corps. Nor would it be very efficient outside of its own territory, for the Montenegrins, whose manner of life is quite as primitive as that of the Albanians, are essentially guerrilla fighters, who cannot well adapt ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... did cheer my heart, and sets me right again, after a good deal of melancholy, out of fears of his disinclination to me, upon the differences with my Lord Sandwich and Sir G. Carteret; but I am satisfied throughly, and so went away quite another man, and by the grace of God will never lose it again by my folly in not visiting and writing to him, as I used heretofore to do. Thence by coach to the Temple, and it being a holyday, a fast-day, ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

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