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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quite" Quotes from Famous Books

... general signal for insurrection throughout the west. In which case, so far from obtaining any assistance from my Lord Ross, I promise you I should have great apprehensions of his being cut off before we can join him, or he us. A retreat would have quite the same fatal effect upon the king's cause as the loss of a battle—and as to the difference of risk or of safety it might make with respect to ourselves, that, I am sure, no gentleman thinks a moment about. There must be some gorges or passes in the morass through which we can force ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... a huge-humped buffalo, with great shaggy mane, came galloping along, straight for where she lay. At sight of the thing on the grass, he started, swerved yards aside, stopped dead, and then came slowly up, looking malicious. Nycteris lay quite still, and never even saw ...

— Stephen Archer and Other Tales • George MacDonald

... misgivings about looking the part of a potentially hard-working young woman renting a three-dollar room on North Clark Street and seeking employment in a musical-comedy chorus. A realization that her neat black seal dressing-case wasn't quite in the picture, helped to account for the landlady's puzzlement about her. But it hadn't been introduced in evidence here. And yet the young man behind the grille seemed as ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... first of his concertos before the court, the accompaniment was so good that Corelli is said to have exclaimed to Matteo: "Si suona a Napoli!"—"They do play at Naples!" This performance being quite successful, he was presented to the king, who afterward requested him to perform one of his sonatas; but his Majesty found the adagio "so long and so dry that he got up and left the room (!), to the great mortification of ...

— Great Violinists And Pianists • George T. Ferris

... not need a wife, but he needs someone to take care of him—all men need that; and I can do it much better than any other person. Had he not married me he never would have married; but he may fall ill, and then how useful I shall be to him! He will grow old, and perhaps it won't be quite so lonely to him when I am there. It would have been a pity for him to marry me if I had been a foolish woman who asked for more love than he can give; but I shall never do that, so I think it is not ...

— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie

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