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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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Etymology of 'Ever'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ever" Quotes from Famous Books

... the most wicked word I ever heard you say, aunt Caxton. I love Plassy beyond all places in the world, that I have ever been in. No part of my life has been so pleasant as the part spent here. If I am weary, I sometimes feel as if my life were singularly ...

— The Old Helmet, Volume II • Susan Warner

... as well as I shall ever be," was the quiet reply. "What you see in my face is just the record of these last four years, the outward evidence of four years of ceaseless trouble and anxiety. I will not call myself yet a broken man, but the time is not ...

— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... told them, it is said, that if they ever violated this agreement he would rise from his grave to fight them. He was long ...

— A Brief History of the United States • Barnes & Co.

... return, tears of vexation that she should so uselessly have ruined her young life which might have been so happy. Laughter and singing in particular seemed to her like a blasphemy, in face of her sorrow. Without any need of self-restraint, no wish to coquet ever entered her head. She said and felt at that time that no man was more to her than Nastasya Ivanovna, the buffoon. Something stood sentinel within her and forbade her every joy. Besides, she had lost all the old interests of her carefree girlish life that had been so full ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... has been in the city several times during the last four years, but never comes here; and, except that one letter, which I did not answer, I have heard nothing from him. I doubt whether we ever meet again." ...

— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans

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