everliving en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From ever + living.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Which lives or continues forever; immortal; everlasting.
- (broadly, not-comparable) Which will never be forgotten.
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(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:
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(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:
Forms
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| ever-living | alternative | lexicographic |