Meaning of everlasting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Everlasting, eternal.
2. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
3. Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.
4. Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
5. Continuing for a long period; eternal.
   excessive, informal
6. Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
   excessive, informal
7. Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
   excessive, informal
8. Chiefly in the name of a plant:
   excessive, informal
9. Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
   excessive, informal
10. Of a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).
    excessive, informal
11. Used as an intensifier.
    US, archaic, excessive, informal, regional

Equivalents

Examples

“And vvhether vve ſhall meete againe, I knovv not: / Therefore our euerlaſting farevvell take: / For euer, and for euer, farevvell, Caſſius, / If vve do meete againe, vvhy vve ſhall ſmile; / If not, vvhy then this parting vvas vvell made.”

“And I will giue vnto thee, and to thy ſeed after thee, the land wherein thou art a ſtranger, all the land of Canaan, for an euerlaſting poſſeſſion, and I will be their God.”

“VVhy, in Heaven I ſhall have an everlaſting Holyday of Pleaſure.”

“And vvhat a trifle is a moments Breath, / Laid in the Scale vvith everlaſting Death?”

“I muſt venture: To go back is nothing but death, to go forvvard is fear of death, and life everlaſting beyond it. I vvill yet go forvvard.”

“Philoſophers, vvho darken and put out / Eternal truth by everlaſting doubt, […]”

“[A]rt thou hidden by those far thicker curtains of the Everlasting night, or rather of the Everlasting Day, though which my mortal eye and outstretched arms need not strive to reach?”

“I would all the gold of earth were sunk into the everlasting pit! It is this mean, and miserable, and loathsome leprosy of avarice, that gnaws away from our whole race the heart, the soul, nay, the very form, of man!”

“His soul has gone to everlasting fire!”

“And Abraham planted trees at Berſeba, and called vpon the name of the LORDE yͤ euerlaſting God, and was a ſtraunger in yͤ londe of the Philiſtynes a longe ſeaſon.”

“For vnto vs a child [Jesus] is borne, vnto vs a Sonne is giuen, and the gouernment ſhalbe vpon his ſhoulder: and his name ſhalbe called, Wonderfull, Counſeller, The mightie God, The euerlaſting Father, The Prince of peace.”

“All of them, the good supernatural beings, they call also 'altgiva,' [apparently an early rendering of "altjira"] as well as the firmament, with the sun, moon, and stars; also the earth, and any things specially remarkable. The word 'altgiva' signifies that these had an everlasting existence.”

“this everlasting nonsense”

“And it [this History] is compiled rather for an Everlasting Possession, then to be rehearſed for a Prize.”

“[T]hink hovv [Francis] Bacon ſhin'd, / The vviſeſt, brighteſt, meaneſt of Mankind: / Or raviſh'd vvith the vvhiſtling of a Name, / See [Oliver] Cromvvell, damn'd to everlaſting Fame!”

“[S]he mark'd thee there, / Stretch'd on the rack of a too-eaſy Chair; / And heard thy everlaſting yavvn confeſs / The Pains and penalties of Idleneſs.”

“[T]he rivulet that swells it [a river], descends from the everlasting mountains, or is formed by the rains of Heaven.”

“I am Juan de la Nuza, the father of the young officer whose life you saved in the assault of the Moriscos, in Valentia, and I owe you an everlasting gratitude.”

“[T]he wind rushing through these mighty gates of everlasting rock— […]”

“[W]e must all die—'tis an inevitable chance—the first Statute in Magna Charta—it is an everlasting act of Parliament […]”

“It is never dark here, you are novv come to the Country of Everlaſting Day; VVhat think you? Is not this Eliſium?”

“I'll diſpatch Them as ſoon as I can, but Heaven knovvs vvhen I ſhall get rid of Them, for They are both everlaſting Goſſips; […]”

“There from a cave with torrent force, / And everlasting roar, / The black bitumen rolled.”

“His countenance was prematurely marked by deep furrows, and his grizzled hair waved over a low, rugged, and forbidding brow, on which there hung an everlasting frown that no smile from the lips (and the man smiled often) could chase away.”

“The French poetry, on the other hand, was deficient in strength and ardour. It was also too much filled with monotonous common-places; among which the tedious descriptions of spring, and the everlasting nightingale, are eminently to be reckoned.”

“Adr[iana]. VVhere is thy Maſter Dromio? Is he vvell? / S. Dro. [Dromio of Syracuse] No, he's in Tartar limbo, vvorſe than hell: / A diuell in an euerlaſting garment hath him; / On vvhoſe hard heart is button'd vp vvith ſteele: / A Feind, a Fairie, pittileſſe and ruffe: / A VVolfe, nay vvorſe, a fellovv all in buffe: […]”

“[W]ere't not for my ſmooth, ſoft, ſilken Citizen, I vvould quit this tranſitorie trade, get mee an euerlaſting robe, ſeare vp my conſcience, and turne Serieant.”

“The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.”

“[T]he ſtalkes and leaues of this [Telephium sempervirum or virens] indure alſo the ſharpneſſe of vvinter, and therefore vve may call it in Engliſh Orpin euerlaſting, or neuer dying Orpin.”

“Lathyrus ſylveſtris flore luteo. Tare everlaſting. This ramping vvilde Vetch or Tare as the country people call it, becauſe it is the moſt pernicious herbe that can grovv on the earth, for corne or any other good herbe that it ſhall grovv by, killing and ſtrangling them: […]”

“The everlastin’ cus he stuck his one-pronged pitchfork in me / An’ made a hole right thru my close ez ef I wuz an in’my.”

“"Come home now," he cried, "an' stop yet jawin', er I'll lam the everlasting head off yehs."”

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