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Perpetually

Perpetually \Per*pet"u*al*ly\, adv. In a perpetual manner; constantly; continually.

The Bible and Common Prayer Book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language.
--Swift.

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perpetually

adv. Seeming to never end; endlessly; constantly.

WordNet
perpetually
  1. adv. seemingly uninterrupted; "constantly bullied by his big brother"; "was perpetually answering the doorbell" [syn: constantly]

  2. everlastingly; for all time; "rays...streaming perpetually from the sun"- Stuart Chase

Usage examples of "perpetually".

But as the account between the monarch and the subject was perpetually open, and as the renewal of the demand anticipated the perfect discharge of the preceding obligation, the weighty machine of the finances was moved by the same hands round the circle of its yearly revolution.

Should apperception once fail, or were it not implied in the very nature of our minds, we should, in the reception of sense-impressions, daily expend as much power as the child in its earliest years, since the perpetually changing objects of the external world would nearly always appear strange and new.

The furry, perpetually grinning reception committee was bearing a tray of assorted beverages.

The flesh was weary, the spirit faint, and I was getting out of humor with the bustling busy throng through which I had to struggle, when in a fit of desperation I tore my way through the crowd, plunged into a by-lane, and, after passing through several obscure nooks and angles, emerged into a quaint and quiet court with a grassplot in the centre overhung by elms, and kept perpetually fresh and green by a fountain with its sparkling jet of water.

A gold-rimmed monocle customarily hung on a black silk ribbon around his neck, and a silk foulard square perpetually drooped from his breast pocket.

Even for an Offshoot house, it was perpetually dim, which was one of the reasons Mom had gotten it so cheap.

Ashamed of my perpetually agile brain, and its egotistic pleasure in analyzing who was persuading whom, which way political power was flowing, who was up and who was on his way down.

The natives were built like Provo, tailored genes keeping them comfortably fat and perpetually warm.

Accustomed to have him perpetually at her side, and without any other companion or resource, she repined at her solitude.

But in this seasonless tropical forest, perpetually abundant, there was no need for their breeding cycles to be synchronized.

And at sight of that beautiful creature, sleeping and smiling in her sleep, the earthy, hothouse fumes steeping the mind of one perpetually serving in an atmosphere unsuited to her natural growth, dispersed.

Amongst them all the father of the child remooved with his owne hands the stone of the Sepulchre, and found his Sonne rising up after his dead and soporiferous sleepe, whom when he beheld, he imbraced him in his armes, and presented him before the people, with great joy and consolation, and as he was wrapped and bound in his grave, so he brought him before the Judges, whereupon the wickednesse of the Servant, and, the treason of the stepdame was plainely discovered, and the verity of the matter revealed, whereby the woman was perpetually exiled, the Servant hanged on a Gallowes, and the Physitian had the Crownes, which was prepared to buy the poyson.

Some heat would be carried around by atmospheric circulation from the sunward side, but not enough, it would seem, to keep water from being perpetually frozen, or the ground from being baked with unrelaxing frost.

The pious emperor held the reins, and, supported by his ministers, moved slowly backwards, that he might perpetually enjoy the felicity of the divine presence.

In the latter, transubstantiation is affirmed, the doctrine of communion in both kinds branded as heresy, the marriage of priests declared void, vows of chastity are made perpetually binding, private masses and auricular confessions are sanctioned.