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单词 never-fading
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never-fadingadj.

Brit. /ˌnɛvəˈfeɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnɛvərˈfeɪdɪŋ/
Forms: see never adv. and fading adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: never adv., fading adj.
Etymology: < never adv. + fading adj.
Unfading; always fresh, bright, or new; (also) that never dissipates or weakens.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > fresh or new > ever new
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1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 143 v Apollo..of the neuer fading Baye did make A Lawrell Crowne, about his browes to cling.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E6 Let vgly darknesse..Smother the earth with neuer fading mistes.
1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. ii. v. iii. 448 Virginity is..a neuer-fading flowre.
1692 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue v, in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. (ed. 3) 287 This Crown of never-fading Lawrel.
1727 J. Gay Fables I. xlv. 154 Might I supply that envy'd place With never-fading love!
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 37 A garland..of never fading flowers.
1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 214 Clothed with never-fading vestures.
1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 21 July 450/1 Fenimore Cooper's imaginative portrayals of Indian life had a never-fading charm for President Adams.
1954 Russ. Rev. 13 114 Communists warn us that Lenin's ideas are never-fading, always triumphantly guiding the Party toward its goal.
1990 M. Martin Keys of this Blood i. v. 142 His coat of arms..placed over door lintels, stamped on letterheads..is but one ever-present and never-fading statement of the source of that personal power.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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