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perennially, adv.|pəˈrɛnɪəlɪ|
[f. perennial a. + -ly2.]
In a perennial way; throughout the year, or a succession of years; constantly, permanently, perpetually, eternally.
1784Parody in Boswell Johnson, A captive in thy ambient arms, Perennially be thine. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ix, Thou findest the Altar still there, and its sacred Lamp perennially burning. 1877E. R. Conder Bas. Faith ix. 396 Duty or Obligation is submission to the authority of moral law, recognised by conscience as perennially binding.
¶b. loosely. Year after year.
1861Smiles Engineers II. ii. v. 154 The attacks of the ague to which they were perennially subject. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxiii. (ed. 2) 537 The contrôle, whose office is perennially vacant. |