Ever

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ever \Ev"er\adv. [OE. ever, [ae]fre, AS. [ae]fre; perh. akin to
     AS. [=a] always. Cf. {Aye}, {Age},{Evry}, {Never}.]
     [Sometimes contracted into {e'er}.]
     1. At any time; at any period or point of time.
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              No man ever yet hated his own flesh.  --Eph. v. 29.
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     2. At all times; through all time; always; forever.
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              He shall ever love, and always be
              The subject of by scorn and cruelty.  --Dryder.
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     3. Without cessation; continually.
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     Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of
           enforcement. "His the old man e'er a son?" --Shak.
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                 To produce as much as ever they can. --M. Arnold.
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     {Ever and anon}, now and then; often. See under {Anon}.
  
     {Ever is one}, continually; constantly. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     {Ever so}, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; -- used to
        intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated
        adjective or adverb. See {Never so}, under {Never}. "Let
        him be ever so rich." --Emerson.
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              And all the question (wrangle e'er so long),
              Is only this, if God has placed him wrong. --Pope.
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              You spend ever so much money in entertaining your
              equals and betters.                   --Thackeray.
  
     {For ever}, eternally. See {Forever}.
  
     {For ever and a day}, emphatically forever. --Shak.
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              She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful
              laughter, out of sight for ever and day. --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
  
     {Or ever} (for or ere), before. See {Or}, {ere}. [Archaic]
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              Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
              Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! --Shak.
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     Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen,
           but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever
           memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ever
       adv 1: at any time; "did you ever smoke?"; "the best con man of all
              time" [syn: {of all time}]
       2: at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will
          always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time";
          "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever hoping
          to strike it rich"; "ever busy" [syn: {always}, {e'er}]
          [ant: {never}]
       3: (intensifier for adjectives) very; "she was ever so
          friendly" [syn: {ever so}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "ever":
     all the time, always, annoyingly, anytime, anyway, anywise, at all,
     at all times, at any cost, at any time, aye, by any chance,
     by any means, by merest chance, ceaselessly, confoundedly,
     consistently, constantly, consummately, continually, continuously,
     daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, endlessly,
     eternally, even, ever and again, ever and anon, everlastingly,
     evermore, every day, every hour, every moment, excessively,
     extremely, for all time, for aye, for good, for keeps, forever,
     forever and aye, forevermore, grievously, hour after hour, hourly,
     if at all, immensely, in all ages, in any case, in any way,
     incessantly, inordinately, invariably, month after month, mortally,
     night and day, now and forever, on and on, once, over, overfull,
     overly, overmuch, perennially, perpetually, plaguey, rapidly,
     regularly, right along, steadily, still, super, sustainedly,
     throughout the ages, till doomsday, till time stops, too,
     unceasingly, unduly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly,
     unvaryingly, usually, without cease, without letup,
     without stopping, year after year, yet