evermore

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And what shall we say of those coming, and yet to come and pass--evermore issuing from the fountain of life, daily born into evil things?

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  1. adverb Forever; always.
  2. adverb In a future time.

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  • And the smooke of theyr torment ascendeth up evermore, and they have no rest daye nor nyght, whyche worshyppe the beast and hys ymage Page 153. —  The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
  • My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. —  God's Plan with Men
  • Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world; by so much, evermore, the strength of the human race has gained; more stubborn in the root, higher towards heaven in the branch; and, "as a teil tree, and as an oak,--whose substance is in them {63} when they cast their leaves,--so the holy seed is in the midst thereof 32. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
  • Lenore! forever--evermore Soon as the Raven heard the silvery tones Lulling as gush of mountain-cradled stream With maddened plunge he fell to rise no more And, in the sweep of his Plutonian wings Dashed to the earth the bust of Pallas fair The haughty brow lay humbled in the dust O'ershadowed by the terror-woven wings Of that wild Raven, as by some dark pall Lift up poor Pallas! —  Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • They must be patient and long-suffering, that they may grow to become the divine magnets of the Abhá Kingdom and acquire the dynamic power of the hosts of the realm on high The fleeting hours of man’s life on earth pass swiftly by and the little that still remaineth shall come to an end, but that which endureth and lasteth for evermore is the fruit that man reapeth from his servitude at the Divine Threshold. —  Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
 

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  1. from Middle English evermore, evere mor, etc.: see ever and more, adv.
 

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/ˈɛvərmoʊr/
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