单词 | for everlasting |
释义 | > as lemmasfor everlasting P1. for everlasting: for all future time, in perpetuity. Formerly also †into everlasting (obsolete). Now poetic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > for all future time or in perpetuity evermoeeOE evermorec1225 foreverc1275 for (also unto) evermore1348 for everlastinga1382 forever and a day1533 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xxv. 8 He shal stumble doun deþ in to euer-lasting [L. in sempiternum], & don awei shal þe lord god eche tere fro alle face. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 4188 Þai wille him lede in-to fer lande to be þair bonde for euer-lastande. ?1530 tr. J. Colet Serm. Conuocacion Paulis sig. Avjv The storme of darkenes is reserued for euerlastynge. 1670 J. Swan Speculum Mundi (ed. 4) iii. §1. 17 The world..was not for everlasting, but took beginning. 1765 C. Smart tr. Psalms David lxxii. 65/2 He shall live for everlasting, High above all empire rais'd. 1828 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Tancredus ii. 7 It [chivalry] is now enlisted in the cause of truth and goodness..to reign for everlasting. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xxii. 173 The everlasting green garden seemed to be left for everlasting, unregainable and far away. 1941 L. Binyon North Star & other Poems 33 The temple built to endure for everlasting. < as lemmas |
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