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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



... together with the perfect knowledge that flows from it.[443] Conversely, the vicious man is given over to eternal death, and in this punishment the righteousness of God is quite as plainly manifested, as in the reward of everlasting life. ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack
... thee, and this is my story to-night. I will love thee as lasting as the sun, wait on for thy emancipation, and meet thee in the spirit-world. When each shall have performed its earth-life, then thy spirit shall be united to mine through the depths of an everlasting life. Wilt thou betroth thyself to me in this wise? No harm can come of this spirit love, and it cannot fail to bless. Saronia of the great unfathomable soul, looking out of those eyes so full of mystic meaning, can this be so? Bind thyself to me! Be mine when death shall sever ...
— Saronia - A Romance of Ancient Ephesus • Richard Short
... for old friendship's sake. But so well did the unconscious Selena work in Jed's behalf that when she flounced off home in a pet Mattie was resolved that she would take Jed back if he wanted to come. She wasn't going to put up with Selena's everlasting interference. She would show her that ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... if attacked with ague as she came within sight of the gaunt farmhouse, and the broken windows and hanging doors gave her a sense of everlasting decay. ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... the Negro has no history to which he can point. There could be no greater mistake than this. If it had been in the power of modern historians of the Caucasian race to rob him of his history it would have been done. But the Holy Bible has stood as an everlasting rock in the black man's defense. God himself has determined that the black man shall not be robbed of his record which he has ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various


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