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everliving en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From ever + living.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Which lives or continues forever; immortal; everlasting.
  2. (broadly, not-comparable) Which will never be forgotten.
  3. (not-comparable) Of or relating to immortality.
    • ...a priest of the eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
  4. (not-comparable, slang) Generic intensifier.
    • What the holy everliving fuck was he talking about? 2002, Michael Vaughn, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
    • Fight it—fight it with all my might—and I was getting the everliving hell beaten out of me! 1997, Susan Powter, Sober...and Staying That Way:
    • Dewey shrinks back, thinking, This guy's about to come across this desk, beat the everliving shit out of me. 2003, James Hime, The Night of the Dance:

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Coordinates

unkillable · indelible

Synonyms

everloving · motherloving · unforgettable · undying

everliving en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From ever + living.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) That which is living forever.
    • Lucifer and his followers among the Everliving manifested the beauty of God. 2000, Alfred Hamilton, Toadstool Bouquet: Short Fiction by Alfred Hamilton:
    • Be aware you are, and discover the everliving. 1974, Osho, The Book of the Secrets: Discourses on Vigyana Bhairava Tantra:
    • In fact, the everliving differs from the eternal. 1995, Brian Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction:

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