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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Everlasting \Ever*last"ing\a.
1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing
without end immoral; eternal. ``The Everlasting God.''
--Gen. xx1. 33.
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.
--Gen xvii. 8.
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and
penalties of idleness. --Pope.
Syn: Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending;
infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual;
unintermitted incessant.
Usage: - {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. --Shak.
{Everlasting flower}. Sane as {Everlasting}, n., 3.
{Everlasting pea}, an ornamental plant ({Lathyrus
latifolius}) related to the pea; -- so called because it
is perennial.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
everlasting
adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of
love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life
everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending
bliss of heaven" [syn: {ageless}, {eternal}, {perpetual},
{unending}, {unceasing}]
2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not
a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or
goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or
goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or
his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn:
{blasted}, {blame}, {blamed}, {blessed}, {damn}, {damned},
{darned}, {deuced}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned}, {infernal}]
3: lasting for an indefinitely long period of time [syn: {eternal},
{lasting}, {eonian}, {aeonian}]
4: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a
sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing
villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: {arrant(a)}, {complete(a)},
{consummate(a)}, {double-dyed(a)}, {everlasting(a)}, {gross(a)},
{perfect(a)}, {pure(a)}, {sodding(a)}, {stark(a)}, {staring(a)},
{thoroughgoing(a)}, {utter(a)}]
5: (informal) continuing too long; "everlasting complaints"
n : any of various plants of various genera of the family
Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss
of form or color [syn: {everlasting flower}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Everlasting
eternal, applied to God (Gen. 21:33; Deut. 33:27; Ps 41:13;
90:2). We also read of the "everlasting hills" (Gen. 49:26); an
"everlasting priesthood" (Ex. 40:15; Num. 25:13). (See {ETERNAL}.)
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EVERLASTING, adj Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence
that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am
not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of
Worcester, entitled, _A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting,"
as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures_. His book
was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is
still I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of
the soul.
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