endlesslyadv.
/ˈɛndlɪsli/ In an endless manner; everlastingly, for ever; perpetually, unceasingly.
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb]
always fortha700
alwayeOE
oeOE
everOE
buten endea1000
echelichec1175
till doomsdayc1175
to timea1200
perdurablyc1275
in ayea1300
without endc1330
anytimea1375
for ay and oc1374
continually1382
perpetuallyc1385
ay-forthc1390
everlastinglyc1390
perpetualc1392
eternallyc1393
endlessa1400
in (also for, to) perpetuitya1400
always?c1425
without timec1425
endlesslya1450
sempiternlyc1450
infinitivec1470
aylastinglyc1475
everlastingc1475
incessantly1481
in saecula saeculorum1481
sempiternally1509
all days1533
for altogether1542
constantly1567
interminate?1567
incorruptibly1579
perpetuously1612
in perpetuum1613
eternal1614
unterminably1631
unfadinglya1672
unendingly1674
for a constancy1710
perennially1729
tarnally1790
imperishably1795
indefectibly1837
immortally1858
fadelessly1861
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adverb] > boundlessly or endlessly
endlessly1616
spacelessly1895
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xlix. l. 64 For they ben Goddis Endelesly.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 55 To be quicknid ȝendlesly.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Bvi v To whome be laude and honoure endlesly.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) 1st Prol. 4 Endelesly..presente in the syghte of hys Godly forknowynge.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 208 Curious galleries..endlesselie roundinge.
1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 41 Lest they should endlessly lose Him.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) Pref. The multiform and endlessly shifting phenomena of nature.
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