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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Everlasting

Ĕv’er-last’ing, a.

adjective

a. 1. Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. “The . . . everlasting God.” Gen. xxi. 33.

Sense 2. Continuing indefinitely, or during the present state of things; perpetual.

I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen. xvii. 8.

Synonyms— Eternal; immortal; interminable; endless; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant. — EVERLASTING. ETERNAL. Eternal denotes that which has neither beginning nor end; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal; as, ‘Thou art from everlasting,’ but in modern usage, everlasting is confined to the future, and denotes that which is without end.

Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take: Forever and forever, farewell, Cassius. Shak.

Ĕv’er-last’ing, n.

noun

n. 1. Eternal duration, past and future; eternity. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God. Ps. xc. 2.

  1. A woolen material for shoes, &c. See LASTING.
  2. (Bot.) A plant, whose flowers dry without losing their form or color, as the American cudweed, of the genus Gnaphalium.