any one

English

Pronoun

any one

1. Archaic form of anyone.
   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 198:

     I should never deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of what is meant at present to be unacknowledged to any one. I know Marianne’s heart: I know that she dearly loves me, and that I shall not be the last to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make the revealment of it eligible. I would not attempt to force the confidence of any one; of a child much less; because a sense of duty would prevent the denial which her wishes might direct.

   • 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley, transl., The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8:

     […]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.

   • 1912, Robert DeC. Ward, “The Value of Non-Instrumental Weather Observations”, in Popular Science Monthly, p. 129:

     There is a very considerable series of observations—non-instrumental, unsystematic, irregular, "haphazard" if you will—which any one with ordinary intelligence and with a real interest in weather conditions may undertake.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any,‎ one.
   • 1958, Ralph Allen, Peace River Country, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 34:

     Sondern took the cards and shuffled them with clumsy haste. Two or three fell between his excited fingers to the floor. “Doesn’t matter a bit,” he said. He offered the pack face down to the other man. “Take any one,” he said. “Go on, any one at all.”

   • 1992, Merrilee H. Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour, James G. Lennox, Peter Machamer, J. E. McGuire, John D. Norton, Wesley C. Salmon, Kenneth F. Schaffner, Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Hackett Publishing Company, published 1999, →ISBN, page 378:

     The theory of computability began with two questions that have not been answered: What is a computation? What is an algorithm? Rather than answering either one of those questions, the development of the theory of computation proceeded by providing specific computational systems, and then characterized the computable as whatever can be computed in any one of these several systems.

   • 2009, Pat Francis, Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a Line for a Write, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 152:

     ■ don’t spend ages choosing a card – just take any one