everlasting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English ever-lasting (“(adjective) eternal, perpetual; constant; (adverb) eternally; (noun) eternity”), from ever (“at all times, always, constantly; eternally, perpetually; regularly; etc.”) + lasting (“continuing, lasting; eternal; etc.”).
* Ever is derived from Old English ǣfre (“ever”), possibly from ā (“always, ever”) + in fēore (“in life”). Ā is from Proto-West Germanic *aiw (“eternity; long time”), from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“long time; eternity”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“life, vital force; long time; eternity”); and fēore is the dative singular of feorh (“life”), from Proto-West Germanic *ferh (“life; kind of tree”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwą (“body; life; tree”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“oak tree”) (as the oak represented life and vitality in Germanic mythology).
* Lasting is derived from lasten (“to continue, last; etc.”) + -ing (suffix forming present participle forms of verbs, often used as adjectives)); and lasten from Old English lǣstan (“to follow, pursue; to carry out, perform”), from Proto-West Germanic *laistijan (“to follow, pursue; to carry out, perform”), from Proto-Germanic *laistijaną (“to follow, pursue”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”).
By surface analysis, ever (adverb) + lasting (adjective).
Inflected forms:
form: more everlasting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most everlasting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ever-lasting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
pos: adj
examples: And vvhether vve ſhall meete againe, I knovv not: / Therefore our euerlaſting farevvell take: / For euer, and for euer, farevvell, Caſſius, / If vve do meete againe, vvhy vve ſhall ſmile; / If not, vvhy then this parting vvas vvell made.
And I will giue vnto thee, and to thy ſeed after thee, the land wherein thou art a ſtranger, all the land of Canaan, for an euerlaſting poſſeſſion, and I will be their God.
VVhy, in Heaven I ſhall have an everlaſting Holyday of Pleaſure.
And vvhat a trifle is a moments Breath, / Laid in the Scale vvith everlaſting Death?
I muſt venture: To go back is nothing but death, to go forvvard is fear of death, and life everlaſting beyond it. I vvill yet go forvvard.
Philoſophers, vvho darken and put out / Eternal truth by everlaſting doubt, […]
[A]rt thou hidden by those far thicker curtains of the Everlasting night, or rather of the Everlasting Day, though which my mortal eye and outstretched arms need not strive to reach?
I would all the gold of earth were sunk into the everlasting pit! It is this mean, and miserable, and loathsome leprosy of avarice, that gnaws away from our whole race the heart, the soul, nay, the very form, of man!
His soul has gone to everlasting fire!
gloss: Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
pos: adj
examples: And Abraham planted trees at Berſeba, and called vpon the name of the LORDE yͤ euerlaſting God, and was a ſtraunger in yͤ londe of the Philiſtynes a longe ſeaſon.
For vnto vs a child [Jesus] is borne, vnto vs a Sonne is giuen, and the gouernment ſhalbe vpon his ſhoulder: and his name ſhalbe called, Wonderfull, Counſeller, The mightie God, The euerlaſting Father, The Prince of peace.
All of them, the good supernatural beings, they call also 'altgiva,' [apparently an early rendering of "altjira"] as well as the firmament, with the sun, moon, and stars; also the earth, and any things specially remarkable. The word 'altgiva' signifies that these had an everlasting existence.
gloss: Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
pos: adj
gloss: Continuing for a long period; eternal.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
informal
examples: this everlasting nonsense
And it [this History] is compiled rather for an Everlasting Possession, then to be rehearſed for a Prize.
[T]hink hovv [Francis] Bacon ſhin'd, / The vviſeſt, brighteſt, meaneſt of Mankind: / Or raviſh'd vvith the vvhiſtling of a Name, / See [Oliver] Cromvvell, damn'd to everlaſting Fame!
[S]he mark'd thee there, / Stretch'd on the rack of a too-eaſy Chair; / And heard thy everlaſting yavvn confeſs / The Pains and penalties of Idleneſs.
[T]he rivulet that swells it [a river], descends from the everlasting mountains, or is formed by the rains of Heaven.
I am Juan de la Nuza, the father of the young officer whose life you saved in the assault of the Moriscos, in Valentia, and I owe you an everlasting gratitude.
[T]he wind rushing through these mighty gates of everlasting rock— […]
[W]e must all die—'tis an inevitable chance—the first Statute in Magna Charta—it is an everlasting act of Parliament […]
gloss: Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
informal
examples: It is never dark here, you are novv come to the Country of Everlaſting Day; VVhat think you? Is not this Eliſium?
I'll diſpatch Them as ſoon as I can, but Heaven knovvs vvhen I ſhall get rid of Them, for They are both everlaſting Goſſips; […]
There from a cave with torrent force, / And everlasting roar, / The black bitumen rolled.
His countenance was prematurely marked by deep furrows, and his grizzled hair waved over a low, rugged, and forbidding brow, on which there hung an everlasting frown that no smile from the lips (and the man smiled often) could chase away.
The French poetry, on the other hand, was deficient in strength and ardour. It was also too much filled with monotonous common-places; among which the tedious descriptions of spring, and the everlasting nightingale, are eminently to be reckoned.
gloss: Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
informal
examples: Adr[iana]. VVhere is thy Maſter Dromio? Is he vvell? / S. Dro. [Dromio of Syracuse] No, he's in Tartar limbo, vvorſe than hell: / A diuell in an euerlaſting garment hath him; / On vvhoſe hard heart is button'd vp vvith ſteele: / A Feind, a Fairie, pittileſſe and ruffe: / A VVolfe, nay vvorſe, a fellovv all in buffe: […]
[W]ere't not for my ſmooth, ſoft, ſilken Citizen, I vvould quit this tranſitorie trade, get mee an euerlaſting robe, ſeare vp my conſcience, and turne Serieant.
gloss: Chiefly in the name of a plant:
pos: adj
tags: excessive
informal
gloss: Chiefly in the name of a plant:
pos: adj
tags: excessive
informal
examples: The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.
[T]he ſtalkes and leaues of this [Telephium sempervirum or virens] indure alſo the ſharpneſſe of vvinter, and therefore vve may call it in Engliſh Orpin euerlaſting, or neuer dying Orpin.
Lathyrus ſylveſtris flore luteo. Tare everlaſting. This ramping vvilde Vetch or Tare as the country people call it, becauſe it is the moſt pernicious herbe that can grovv on the earth, for corne or any other good herbe that it ſhall grovv by, killing and ſtrangling them: […]
gloss: Used as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: US
archaic
excessive
informal
regional
examples: The everlastin’ cus he stuck his one-pronged pitchfork in me / An’ made a hole right thru my close ez ef I wuz an in’my.
"Come home now," he cried, "an' stop yet jawin', er I'll lam the everlasting head off yehs."
Synonyms: continual
endless
eternal
immortal
incessant
infinite
interminable
never-ending
permanent
unceasing
unintermitted
uninterrupted
unlimited
Antonyms: ephemeral
finite
limited
mortal
Derived words: co-everlasting
everlasting life
everlastingly
everlastingness
everlasting pool
everlasting staircase
everlasting syllabub
everlasting trimming
foreeverlasting
Translations:
lang: Bengali
word: চিরন্তন
roman: cironton
lang: Bengali
word: চিরস্থায়ী
roman: cirosthaẏi
lang: Bengali
word: অনন্ত
roman: onnto
lang: Bengali
word: নিত্য
roman: nitto
lang: Bengali
word: সনাতন
roman: śonaton
lang: Bulgarian
word: вечен
roman: večen
lang: Catalan
word: etern
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎢᎪᎯᏓ
roman: igohida
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 永活
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 永遠 /永远
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 永久
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 永遠 /永远
roman: īng-uōng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 永活
roman: yǒnghuó
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 永久
roman: yǒngjiǔ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 永遠 /永远
roman: yǒngyuǎn
lang: Min Nan Chinese
word: 永久
roman: éng-kiú, éng-kú
lang: Min Nan Chinese
word: 永遠 /永远
roman: éng-oán
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: -a ɗaima
lang: Dutch
word: altijddurend
lang: Finnish
word: ikuinen
lang: French
word: éternel
lang: Galician
word: eterno
lang: Galician
word: interminábel
lang: Galician
word: sen termo
lang: Georgian
word: წარუვალი
roman: c̣aruvali
lang: Georgian
word: მარადი
roman: maradi
lang: Georgian
word: მუდმივი
roman: mudmivi
lang: Georgian
word: მარადიული
roman: maradiuli
lang: German
word: ewig
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃
roman: aiweins
lang: Hindi
word: अक्षय
roman: akṣay
lang: Hungarian
word: örökkévaló
lang: Hungarian
word: örökös
lang: Italian
word: eterno
lang: Italian
word: immortale
lang: Italian
word: imperituro
lang: Japanese
word: 永久の
roman: eikyū no
lang: Khmer
word: ជានិច្
roman: chéanĭch
lang: Khmer
word: ជានិច្ច
roman: ciə nɨc
lang: Latin
word: sempiternus
lang: Macedonian
word: вечен
roman: večen
lang: Navajo
word: doo ninítʼiʼii
lang: Old English
word: ēċe
lang: Portuguese
word: eterno
lang: Portuguese
word: interminável
lang: Romanian
word: etern
lang: Romanian
word: interminabil
lang: Romanian
word: nemuritor
lang: Russian
word: ве́чный
roman: véčnyj
lang: Sanskrit
word: अक्षित
roman: akṣita
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: maireannach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sìorraidh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: невен
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ве̏чан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вје̏чан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: neven
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vȅčan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vjȅčan
lang: Spanish
word: inmarcesible
lang: Sumerian
word: 𒁕𒊑
roman: Da-ri
lang: Swedish
word: evig
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠌꠤꠞꠇꠣꠟ
roman: siroxal
lang: Tibetan
word: ཐོག་མཐའ་མེད་པ
roman: thog mtha' med pa
lang: Tocharian B
word: ṣekaññe
lang: Turkish
word: sonsuz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دایم
roman: daim
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ابدی
roman: ebedî
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: موبد
roman: muʿebbed
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: پاینده
roman: payanda, payende
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صوڭسز
roman: soñsız
lang: Vietnamese
word: vĩnh viễn