eternallyadv.
/iːˈtəːnəli/ In an eternal manner.
1. Chiefly with reference to God: ‘From everlasting and to everlasting’.
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb] > eternally or transcending time
eternallya1385
without timec1425
aeviternally1608
intemporally1660
timelessly1823
datelessly1854
a1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Philomene. 2226 Thow..that hast wrought This fayre world, & bar it In thyn thought Eternaly [v.r. eternally] er thow thyn werk beganne.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xvi. 91 The lawe which God with himselfe hath eternally set downe.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iii. 86 If it were eternally altered, or eternally corrupted, then it was eternally, and eternally was not; it was eternally without alteration, and eternally altered.
1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 344 What comes before and after the great world..God alone knows eternally.
2.
a. Without end; for ever; throughout eternity.
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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
c1393 G. Chaucer Scogan 2 To-brokene ben þe statutis in heuene Þat creat were eternally [v.r. eternaly] to dure.
c1430 Syr. Gener. (Roxb.) (ad fin.) To heven blis forto wende Eternallie there to be.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Buriall f. xxix* Whosoeuer liueth, and beleueth in hym, shal not dye eternallye.
1595 W. C. Clarke in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 15 Bartasse, eternally praiseworthie for his weeks worke.
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vii. 724 Then the survivor fetching two or three groans over his dead Enemy, fell down eternally by his side.
1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 76 Would they not bless the grave..and wish to lie eternally hid in its deepest gloom?
b. hyperbolically.
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the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a long time
longeOE
longOE
longlyOE
longsomelyOE
yorec1275
lastingly1372
longsa1450
for longa1530
in length1566
with the longest1636
stayingly1648
eternally1664
sometime1801
chronically1854
forever1861
somewhile1864
for the duration1916
long-term1947
secularly1971
1664 Sir C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 43 Yrs, eturnally.
1850 W. R. Ryan Personal Adventures Calif. I. 310 If you'll sell it me..I'll be etarnally obliged to you.
3. With perpetual recurrence; continually, constantly, incessantly.
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the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > always or in every case
alwayeOE
aldayOE
everOE
by night and (by) daylOE
ayc1175
algatea1200
alwaysc1225
everylikec1225
stillc1297
evermorea1300
algatesa1325
alikec1330
early and latec1330
at all assaysc1360
universallya1398
likec1400
continuallyc1460
tidely1482
ay-whenc1485
from time to (formerly unto) timea1500
at all seasons1526
at once1563
at every turn1565
throughout1567
still still1592
still1594
still and anona1616
still an enda1616
every stitch-while1620
everlastingly1628
constantly1651
everywhen1655
eternally1670
allus1739
any day (of the week)1759
everly1808
allers1833
every time1854
toujours1902
all (the way) down the line1975
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon Pref. The Duke himself being so eternally upon the Scene of Action, that we shall seldom find him retir'd.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 17 The other was eternally Drunk.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §246 I found it eternally rung in my ears from all quarters.
1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 14 Nor is he eternally pulling a pair of monstrous white cuffs over his hands.
4. Immutably, unalterably.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adverb]
ever ylikeOE
stillc1297
unchangeablya1340
in likea1425
unchangingly1435
immutably1601
irrevocably1608
negatively1622
inalterably1631
irreversibly1635
unalterably1643
invariably1646
intransibly1654
influxibly1677
uniformly1682
eternally1694
unvariably1766
unvaryingly1814
changelessly1825
homœostatically1959
terminally1974
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 435 That which is Morally good..must be also Eternally, and Unchangeably.
1878 J. P. Hopps Princ. Relig. viii. 26 There is such a thing as the eternally right and the unchangeably good.
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