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adverb

Ever adv. (Sometimes contracted into e'er)

1.

At any time; at any period or point of time. "No man ever yet hated his own flesh."

2.

At all times; through all time; always; forever. "He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty."

3.

Without cessation; continually. Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. "His the old man e'er a son?" "To produce as much as ever they can."

Ever and anon, now and then; often. See under Anon.

Ever is one, continually; constantly. (Obs.)

Ever so, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; used to intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or adverb. See Never so, under Never. "Let him be ever so rich." "And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has placed him wrong." "You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters."

For ever, eternally. See Forever.

For ever and a day, emphatically forever. "She (Fortune) soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day."

Or ever (for or ere), before. See Or, ere. (Archaic) "Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!" Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ever so" Quotes from Famous Books

... the exercise of young Russians, an elaborate plan of studies for a proposed Russian University,—no less panurgic and less encyclopaedic a critic than Diderot himself could undertake to sweep with ever so light a wing over this vast area. Everybody can find something to say about the collection of tales, in which Diderot thought that he was satirising the manners of his time, after the fashion of Rabelais, Montaigne, La Mothe-le-Vayer, and Swift. But not everybody is competent to deal, ...

— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley

... time it had been held that the nasal cavities must be cut off from the mouth by the closing of the soft palate against the back of the throat; that the passage of ever so little of the sound above the palate would give a nasal twang, and that the sound was reinforced and developed only in the cavities of the throat and mouth. My practice in Oral Surgery, coupled with my own vocal studies exposed this fallacy and revealed ...

— Resonance in Singing and Speaking • Thomas Fillebrown

... Cave of the Winds of Niagara, where water is more abundant in the atmosphere than air. Yet my watch afterward indicated only about twenty minutes of extreme distress. But that twenty minutes is one period I shall never forget. I advise you, Leslie, if you are ever so foolish as to try the experiment, to remain below the ...

— The Gold of the Gods • Arthur B. Reeve

... was too sore laid on, Which sixteen winters cannot blow away, So many summers dry; scarce any joy Did ever so long live; no sorrow But ...

— The Winter's Tale - [Collins Edition] • William Shakespeare

... Man's tendencies, his aims and modes of pursuing them, his individual character, and his character in the mass, may be studied almost as well here as on the theatre of nations; and with this great advantage, that, be the lesson ever so disastrous, its Liliputian scope ...

— The Sister Years (From "Twice Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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