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everˈlastingly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. Without end; for ever; throughout all future time. Also hyperbolically and in relative sense.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 4174 To be qwene of alle heven now and eure lastyngly. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 179 They..shall lyue euerlastyngly and neuer dye spiritually. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. ii. 207 Ile hate him euerlastingly That bids me be of comfort any more. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §34. 35 The favour which they primarily had with God is everlastingly confirmed. 1715De Foe Fam. Instruct. i. i. (1841) I. 12 He punishes them everlastingly in hell. a1745Swift (J.), Many have made themselves everlastingly ridiculous. 1804Wordsw. To the Supreme Being, The fetters of my tongue do Thou unbind, That I may..sound thy praises everlastingly. 1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune III. 67 If you could lend me half a sov., I should be everlastingly obliged to you.
b. Through all past and future time, ‘from everlasting to everlasting’. † Also, Throughout all past time (obs.).
1587Golding De Mornay vii. 91 Againe, haue they [the two Sexes] bin euerlastingly but two, or euerlastingly mo than two? 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. v. (1611) 11 God..who..euerlastingly is whatsoeuer he may be. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 90 God was not made at anie time, in as much as he is euerlastinglie vnbegotten. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 428 God's ways are everlasting, ordered everlastingly, existing everlastingly in the Divine Mind.
2. With perpetual recurrence; continually, constantly, incessantly; = eternally 3.
1826Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 104 They are everlastingly railing against the working people. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 526 The rights of property everlastingly put in dispute. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne I. vi. 93 Everlastingly running up and down from town.
3. Beyond measure; immeasurably, excessively. (Common in U.S. slang.) |