Crossword clues for everlasting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Everlasting \Ev`er*last"ing\, n.
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Eternal duration, past or future; eternity.
From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
--Ps. xc. 2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
(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.
A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.
Everlasting \Ever*last"ing\a.
Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. ``The Everlasting God.''
--Gen. xx1. 33.-
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.,
Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant ( Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because it is perennial.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. 2 Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive. 3 (label en philosophy) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time). 4 (label en colloquial) Extremely. n. 1 An everlasting flower. 2 A cloth fabric for shoes, etc.
WordNet
adj. 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]
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]
lasting for an indefinitely long period of time [syn: eternal, lasting, eonian, aeonian]
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)]
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]
Wikipedia
Everlasting may refer to:
- Everlasting life, the concept of physical or spiritual immortality
"Everlasting" is BoA's 18th Japanese single and 4th Korean single. The leading track "Everlasting" is a ballad, and the B-side track, "Soundscape" is a mid-tempo song for Japanese version and "People say..." for the Korean version B-side track. This single also contains the first "classical version" (orchestral composition remake) of any BoA songs thus far, "Everlasting: Classical Ver.".
Everlasting is the debut album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on April 9, 1997.
Everlasting is a release by Refused. This EP is considered more " metallic" then previous releases.
Everlasting is a 1987 RIAA Gold-certified album by American singer Natalie Cole. She returned to Capitol Records via Manhattan Records. Released on June 14, 1987, the album is considered Cole's commercial comeback. The album features production by duo The Calloways who contributed to "Jump Start", the pure pop crossover cover of Bruce Springsteen's " Pink Cadillac", which reached the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, and the hit, "I Live for Your Love".
Also included are the Bacharach and David songs "In My Reality" and "Split Decision" along with a cover of " When I Fall in Love", bringing her another step closer to tapping into her father Nat King Cole's era of the Great American Songbook.
Everlasting is the twelfth studio album by American country music artist Martina McBride. It was released on April 8, 2014, on McBride's own label through Kobalt Label Services. The album features covers of soul and R&B songs. It was produced by Don Was and includes duets with Gavin DeGraw and Kelly Clarkson.
Usage examples of "everlasting".
Venerian lives upon the bottom of an everlasting sea of fog and his thin epidermis, utterly without pigmentation, burns and blisters as frightfully at the least exposure to actinic light as does ours at the touch of a red-hot iron.
He stood on a mountain at sunrise, and saw the marvels of the amethystine clouds below his feet, heard an eternal and white silence, such as broods among the everlasting snows, and saw an eagle winging for the sun.
Book forgotten in that babblement, a light to his way and a support to his steps, which, following and trusting, he knows will lead him to everlasting life.
Even a diamond is not literally everlasting, and even a cistron can be cut in two by crossing-over.
This room has been the scene of the happiest hours of my life in which my coeternal companion, incased in the flesh of a real man, plighted his everlasting love and devotion to me.
And truly, although very long, his letter contained nothing but the assurance of everlasting love, and hopes which could not be realized.
It was the crypta or sacred place, where of old the everlasting fire was preserved.
My friend told the medium that when his relative was in this poor world, he was endowed with an extraordinary intellect and an absolutely defectless memory, and it seemed a great pity that he had not been allowed to keep some shred of these for his amusement in the realms of everlasting contentment, and for the amazement and admiration of the rest of the population there.
She abhorred sin, because she was obliged to purge herself of it by confession under pain of everlasting damnation, and she did not want to be damned.
For if we are to believe in any everlasting things at all, we cannot shut out the fatal everlastingness of Memory!
Americans--the hunger for a better life--an end of rawness, newness, sourness, distressful and exacerbated misery, the taking from the great plantation of the earth and of America our rich inheritance of splendour, ease, and abundance--good food, and sensual love, and noble cookery--the warmth of radiant colour and of wine--pulse of the blood--an end of misery, bitterness, hunger and unrest upon the breast of everlasting plenty--the inheritance of exultancy and joy for ever, which some foul, corrosive poison in our lives--bitter enigma that it is!
We understand the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews really to say in subtraction from what the Calvinist, in addition to what the Unitarian, says that Christ, by his resurrection from the tyrannous realm of death, and ascent into the unbarred heaven, demonstrated the fact that God, in his sovereign grace, in his free and wondrous love, would forgive mankind their sins, remove the ancient penalty of transgression, no more dooming their disembodied spirits to the noiseless and everlasting gloom of the under world, but admitting them to his own presence, above the firmamental floor, where the beams of his chambers are laid, and where he reigneth forever, covered with light as with a garment.
Would anyone, then, knowing the whole case, have condemned me if I had destroyed my own life in order to deliver myself from everlasting remorse?
God, to meet a Venetian nobleman who had seduced her and then deceived her, thus sealing her everlasting misery.
After these acts, done to the everlasting shame of my good sense, after this apology made to procuresses who laughed at me and my honour, I went home, promising two guineas to the servant who should bring me tidings that her young mistress had come home.