Meanings
comparative more everlastingly · superlative most everlastingly
- In an everlasting manner; without end; forever.
`Curse her, may she be everlastingly accursed.' The arms fell and the flame sank.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC1 more example
Their lives are dedicated to world conquest, but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory.
1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001Synonyms: 5ever, ad infinitum, all the time, always, aye, continually, endlessly, eternally
- Perpetually; constantly.
They talk about education, everlastingly, as if it were a cure-all instead of a process for making unfit nations unfitter […]
1909, Ford Madox Ford, The English Review, volume 2, page 130Synonyms: ceaselessly, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually, continuously, endlessly, eternally
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an everlasting manner; without end; forever.
adverbPerpetually; constantly.
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