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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: E'er \E'er\ (?; 277), adv A contraction for ever. See {Ever}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ever \Ev"er\adv. [OE. ever, [ae]fre, AS [ae]fre; perh. akin to AS [=a] always Cf {Aye}, {Age},{Evry}, {Never}.] [Sometimes contracted into {e'er}.] 1. At any time; at any period or point of time. No man ever yet hated his own flesh. --Eph. v. 29. 2. At all times; through all time; always forever. He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty. --Dryder. 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?'' --Shak. To produce as much as ever they can. --M. Arnold. {Ever and anon}, now and then; often See under {Anon}. {Ever is one}, continually; constantly. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {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.'' --Emerson. And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this if God has placed him wrong --Pope. You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters. --Thackeray. {For ever}, eternally. See {Forever}. {For ever and a day}, emphatically forever. --Shak. She [Fortune] soon wheeled away with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day --Prof. Wilson. {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! --Shak. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: e'er adv : at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time"; "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever hoping to strike it rich"; "ever busy" [syn: {always}, {ever}] [ant: {never}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: EER An extended {entity-relationship model}.
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