Everlasting
[evə'lɑːstɪŋ] or [,ɛvɚ'læstɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color.
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Definition
(a.) Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal.
(a.) Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Eternal, endless, unending, ever-during, perpetual, incessant, ceaseless, continual, uninterrupted, interminable, unceasing, never-ceasing, never-ending.[2]. Imperishable, undying, never-dying, ever-living, deathless, immortal.
n. [1]. Eternity.[2]. Cudweed, goldylocks, IMMORTELLE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Infinite, endless,[See ETERNAL]
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Definition
adj. endless: eternal.—n. eternity.—adv. Everlast′ingly.—n. Everlast′ingness.—Everlasting flower the popular name of certain plants whose flowers may be kept for years without much diminution of beauty; From or To everlasting from or to all eternity; The Everlasting God.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester entitled A Partial Definition of the Word 'Everlasting as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul.
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Examples
- It is in this little place that there was developed the remarkable mixture which is to play so vital a part in the successful construction of these everlasting homes for living millions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the next sentence the everlasting Ezra Jennings appeared again! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The everlasting reiterations about the tariff take up altogether too much time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I have something to say to you, if you would give up that everlasting walk, walk, walk. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I'll take my world-without-end everlasting Alfred David that you warn't with him,' answered Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Stone crosses like these are not unfamiliar to you, nor are these dim garlands of everlasting flowers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Drum, trumpetbugle, had uttered their clangour, and were forgotten; with pencil-ray she wrote on heaven and on earth records for archives everlasting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He poured forth a few energetic sentences of that wondrous One,--his life, his death, his everlasting presence, and power to save. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Don't you see the golden city and the everlasting day? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Miss Ophelia felt the loss; but, in her good and honest heart, it bore fruit unto everlasting life. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There was the everlasting Mr. Begbie, too eager for the controversy to wait any longer at the gate. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon on the life-tide of the city to the boundless everlasting sea. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- WILL a man partake, as has been tormented out of his five senses by an everlasting dustman with his head tied up! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Stranded was Gruff and Glum in a harbour of everlasting mud, when all in an instant Bella floated him, and away he went. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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