from the first

Meaning

from the first

Synonym of from the start

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

initially all along

Examples

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. Janet Frame

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen. Frederick Douglass

We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry the hatred about the murder of 5 million people on to another World War. Hans Fritzsche

(Coining the phrase ‘test of significance'): Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first. Ronald Fisher

Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else. Flavius Josephus

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. Stephen Greenblatt

Words in the phrase

from the first

Close letter words and terms

from the end from the exterior from the face of the earth from the first time from the four corners of the earth from the four corners of the globe