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Everlasting   /ˌɛvərlˈæstɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Everlasting  adj.  
1.
Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting God."
2.
Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence. "I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee... the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession." "And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness."
Synonyms: Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant. Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. "Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius."
Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3.
Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; so called because it is perennial.


noun
Everlasting  n.  
1.
Eternal duration, past or future; eternity. "From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."
2.
(With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
3.
(Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle (Xeranthemum anuum) of the French, the cudweeds, etc.
4.
A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.





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"Everlasting" Quotes from Famous Books



... the head, joke with them, whisper affection, express love to them. Those acts will be remembered in all their years to come, for you are planting everlasting plants that may pass onto a hundred generations and make children happy a thousand years ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter
... me again: but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood: Who, once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge ...
— William Shakespeare • John Masefield
... word written on it. Was that what they had meant that day there in the court, she and the Bishop? Had they not lied, after all? Was there some sort of uncanny truth or insight or hidden justice in that secret confessional of theirs that revealed the deep, the real, the everlasting truth, while it hid the momentary, accidental truth of mere words? In effect, they had said that he was ...
— The Shepherd of the North • Richard Aumerle Maher
... a pity," said the Reformed Pirate. "I've heard of that cottage and I'd like to see it myself. In fact, I'd like to go to see almost anything that was proper and quiet, so as to get rid of the sight of this everlasting knitting." ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various
... on earth can give to the hearts thou lovest the shelter which the humblest take from the wings of the Presence that lives in heaven? Fear not thou for their future. Whether thou live or die, their future is the care of the Most High! In the dungeon and on the scaffold looks everlasting the Eye of HIM, tenderer than thou to love, wiser than thou to guide, mightier ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton


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