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everlastingly

adv

Etymology

From everlasting + -ly.

  1. inherited from *leys-✻ — “to trace, track”
  2. inherited from *laistijaną✻ — “to follow, pursue”
  3. inherited from *laistijan✻ — “to follow, pursue; to carry out, perform”
  4. inherited from lǣstan — “to follow, pursue; to carry out, perform”
  5. inherited from *perkʷ-✻ — “oak tree”
  6. inherited from *ferhwą✻ — “body; life; tree”
  7. inherited from *ferh✻ — “life; kind of tree”
  8. inherited from *h₂ey-✻ — “life, vital force; long time; eternity”
  9. inherited from *aiwaz✻ — “long time; eternity”
  10. inherited from *aiw✻ — “eternity; long time”
  11. inherited from ǣfre — “ever”
  12. inherited from ever-lasting — “(adjective) eternal, perpetual; constant; (adverb) eternally; (noun) eternity”
  13. suffixed as everlastingly — “everlasting + ly”

Definitions

  1. In an everlasting manner

    In an everlasting manner; without end; forever.

    • `Curse her, may she be everlastingly accursed.' The arms fell and the flame sank.
    • Their lives are dedicated to world conquest, but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory.

  2. Perpetually

    Perpetually; constantly.

    • They talk about education, everlastingly, as if it were a cure-all instead of a process for making unfit nations unfitter […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at everlastingly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at everlastingly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at everlastingly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA