universally

adv

Etymology: From Middle English universally; equivalent to universal + -ly.

1. In a universal manner.

   “My experience of the people was that they were universally polite, civil, and clean, and during the whole time I spent in the country, I only saw one drunken man.”

   “If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .”

2. By everyone or by the vast majority of people.

   “The movie was universally praised by its audience.”

   “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”