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everlastingly

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ev·er·last·ing  (vr-lstng)
adj.
1. Lasting forever; eternal.
2.
a. Continuing indefinitely or for a long period of time.
b. Persisting too long; tedious: everlasting complaints.
n.
1. Everlasting God. Used with the.
2. Eternal duration; eternity.
3. Any of various plants, such as the strawflower or one of the genera Anaphalis or Gnaphalium, that retain form and color long after they are dry.
ever·lasting·ly adv.
ever·lasting·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.everlastingly - for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss
eternally, forever, evermore
Translations
everlastingly [ˌevəˈlɑːstɪŋlɪ] ADV [grateful] → eternamente; [patient] → infinitamente
everlastingly
adv (liter) → ewig
everlastingly [ˌɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋlɪ] adv (see adj) → eternamente, in eterno, continuamente, incessantemente
everlastingly [ˌɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋlɪ] adv (see adj) → eternamente, in eterno, continuamente, incessantemente


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Rather Cape Tormentoto, as called of yore; for long allured by the perfidious silences that before had attended us, we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea, where guilty beings transformed into those fowls and these fish, seemed condemned to swim on everlastingly without any haven in store, or beat that black air without any horizon.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He had an extremely disturbing air of being everlastingly ready (even when seated at table at my right hand before a plate of salt beef) to grapple with some impending calamity.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Still grander are the gifts of heaven which Musaeus and his son vouchsafe to the just; they take them down into the world below, where they have the saints lying on couches at a feast, everlastingly drunk, crowned with garlands; their idea seems to be that an immortality of drunkenness is the highest meed of virtue.
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