thoroughgoing

CEFRC1

/ˈθʌɹəˌɡoʊɪŋ/

adjective

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I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment.
Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left.

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I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment.
1927, T. S. Eliot, “The Humanism of Irving Babbitt”, in Selected Essays, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1964, page 425
It must be reiterated, as, for the purpose of these Memoranda, the deep lesson of History and Time, that all else in the contributions of a nation or age, through its politics, materials, heroic personalities, military eclat, &c., remains crude, and defers, in any close and thorough-going estimate, until vitalized by national, original archetypes in literature.
1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 50
Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 182

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From thorough + going (adjective).