Meaning & use

versal

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(Dialectal) universal; entire or whole.

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In all the versal world, she said, there was no truer friend.

He searched the versal earth for an answer to his question.

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An archaic, dialectal shortening of "universal," famously used by the Nurse in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

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