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adjective

Everlasting adj.

1.

Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting God."

2.

Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence. "I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee... the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession." "And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness."

Synonyms: Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant. Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. "Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius."

Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3.

Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; so called because it is perennial.

noun

Everlasting n.

1.

Eternal duration, past or future; eternity. "From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."

2.

(With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.

3.

(Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle (Xeranthemum anuum) of the French, the cudweeds, etc.

4.

A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.

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Etymology of 'Everlasting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Everlasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... (* Murder everlasting) says Jack, 'fly back, avourneen machree—for rather than anything should happen ...

— The Ned M'Keown Stories - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

... made the most of the calm spell and took out the only airship we have here and circled about for at least two hours, with a fast monoplane scouting in case of reprisals. The sun is at present sinking in the west and the evening colouring among the mountains makes one long for everlasting peace, there is too much discord between such scenes and ...

— The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" • George Davidson

... the giant Himalayas towered into the still clear air, the guardian barriers of an unknown land. The fretted pinnacles and tremendous ridges, clothed in their pure white mantle of everlasting snow, made a magnificent contrast to the dark, misty, wooded masses formed by the lower ranges of hills. In the early morning, when the first beams of the rising sun had but touched the mountain tops, leaving the country below shrouded ...

— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis

... Lake Windemere and these lovely villages. He was holding Thora's hand and glancing constantly into her face, and before he recognised what he was saying, Ambleside and Windemere were quite forgotten, and he was telling Thora that he loved her with an everlasting love. He vowed that he had loved her in his past lives, and would love her, and only her, forever. And he looked so handsome and spoke in words of the sweetest tenderness, and indeed was amazed at his own passionate ...

— An Orkney Maid • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... are on your way to the house of Dede-Vsevede? Now we have an apple-tree here that bears the fruit of everlasting youth. One of these apples eaten by a man, even though he be dying, will cure him and make him young again. For the last twenty years neither fruit nor flower has been found on this tree. Will you ask Dede-Vsevede the cause ...

— Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen • Alexander Chodsko

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