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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section IV. Order |
| 4. Distributive Order |
| 78. Generality. |
| NOUN: | GENERALITY, generalization; universality; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness; dragnet; common run; worldwideness. Pan-Americanism, Pan-Anglicanism, Pan-Hellenism, Pan-Germanism, Panslavism or Pansclavism. EVERYONE, everybody, tout le monde [F.]; all hands [colloq.], all the world and his wife [humorous]; anybody, N or M, all sorts. PREVALENCE, rifeness, run. |
| VERB: | BE GENERAL &c. adj.; prevail, be going about, stalk abroad. RENDER GENERAL &c. adj.; spread, broaden, universalize, generalize. |
| ADJECTIVE: | GENERAL, generic, collective; current, wide, broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedic or encylopedical, panoramic; widespread (dispersed) [See Nonassemblage. Dispersion]. UNIVERSAL; catholic, catholical; common, worldwide, nationwide, statewide, heavenwide, ecumenical or œcumenical; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over [colloq.], covered with. Pan-American, Pan-Anglican, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, Panslavic or Pansclavic, Panslavonic, Panslavonian; panharmonic. EVERY, all; unspecified, impersonal, indefinite. CUSTOMARY (habitual) [See Habit]. |
| ADVERB: | whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all. GENERALLY &c. adj.; always, for better for worse; in general, generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long run &c. (on an average) [See Mean]; by and large, roughly speaking. |
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