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ever and anon en · ADV

Meanings

1. (literary, not-comparable) Synonym of occasionally, now and then.
   • Ever and anon the guard's face could be dimly seen at his window, more like a ghost than a man; [...]. 1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 134:
   • Pippin never forgot that hour in the great hall under the piercing eye of the Lord of Gondor, stabbed ever and anon by his shrewd questions 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 1:
   • I could see Salemina at the far end of the table radiant with success, the W. S. at her side bending ever and anon to catch the (artificial) pearls of thought that dropped from her lips. 1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 6, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
   • Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 12:

Synonyms

now and then · occasionally