"fully" in the Big Book

My schoolmate visited me, and I fully acquainted him with my problems and deficiencies.

These were revolutionary and drastic proposals, but the moment I fully accepted them, the effect was electric.

How often have some of us begun to drink in this nonchalant way, and after the third or fourth, pounded on the bar and said to ourselves, “For God’s sake, how did I ever get started again?’’ Only to have that thought supplanted by “Well, I’ll stop with the sixth drink.’’ Or “What’s the use anyhow?’’ When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.

This *Fully explained—Appendix II.

Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, “Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing.”

We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics.

Some of you are thinking: “Yes, what you tell us is true, but it doesn’t fully apply.

We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.

Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it didn’t fully solve the fear problem, or any other.

It is important that he be able to keep a confidence; that he fully understand and approve what we are driving at;

There may be some wrongs we can never fully right.

The wife should fully understand his new way of life.

Had we fully understood the nature of the alcoholic illness, we might have behaved differently.

Though the family does not fully agree with dad’s spiritual activities, they should let him have his head.

It is better for him to feel fully responsible.

Painfully aware of being somehow abnormal, the man did not fully realize what it meant to be alcoholic.* When our friend related his experience, the man agreed that no amount of will power he might muster could stop his drinking for long.