Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of ever-burning.
The deepening twilight threw all into shadow, save where the everburning lamp shed its soft light around the tabernacle.
1839, Emily C. Agnew, Geraldine: A Tale of Conscience, page 2093 more examples
If we were justified in believing a communication by Keane, it would appear that the everburning light had also passed into Islam.
1917, Arent Jan Wensinck, Some Semitic Rites of Mourning and Religion, page 40They themselves look robbers and dacoits on the world stage, armed to the teeth with all kinds of deadly weapons, pillaging the countries and enslaving nations to capture new markets of trade, seize resources of raw material, open lands for colonisation and mines yielding valuable metals to provide fuel for their everburning fire of avarice.
1939, S. Aul A'la Maududi, translated by Abdul Waheed Khan, Jihad in Islam, page 1He was really not as powerful as he would have had people believe—even his apparently everburning flames were fueled by gas piped from underground, which eventually caused an explosion.
2006, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Weatherwitch, →ISBN
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