sempiternallyadv.
Everlastingly, eternally.
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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
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xviv God is aboue and regneth sempiternally [1570 sempeternally]. Whiche shall vs deme at his last Jugement.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie App. 22 The Word and his Spirit sempiternally proceed from God, and are sempiternally in him.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. v. 53 That is to be done infinitely and sempiternally.
1879 T. H. S. Escott England I. xi. 306 The filthy back-kitchen of the den, sempiternally reeking with the fumes of bad drink and vile tobacco.
1895 I. Zangwill Master ii. x. 245 It wore a sempiternally festive air.
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