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Etymology
Etymology tree English everlasting Middle English -ly English -ly English everlastingly From everlasting + -ly.
Meanings
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In an everlasting manner; without end; forever.
`Curse her, may she be everlastingly accursed.' The arms fell and the flame sank.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Their lives are dedicated to world conquest, but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory.
1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
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Perpetually; constantly.
They talk about education, everlastingly, as if it were a cure-all instead of a process for making unfit nations unfitter […]
1909, Ford Madox Ford, The English Review, volume 2, page 130:
Forms
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| most everlastingly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more everlastingly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Synonyms
until Kingdom come · successively · fivever · ever · continually · unstoppingly · infinitely · continuously · endlessly · in perpetuity · eternally · eternally · for good · in saecula saeculorum · continually · continently · sempiternally · extendedly · steadily · all the time · unendingly · lastingly · until hell freezes over · uninterruptedly · 5ever · permanently · unintermittedly · unendingly · always · never-endingly · relentlessly · for ever more · ever after · unremittingly · forevermore · unceasingly · incessantly · never-endingly · ceaselessly · ongoingly · for ever and ever · evermore · aye · endlessly · constantly · unrelentingly · consecutively · ad infinitum · persistently · incessantly · everlastingly · forever · perpetually · perpetually · unrelievedly · unbrokenly · for evermore · ever · interminably · nonstop