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4 definitions found 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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