everlasting

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.

   “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.”

2. sıfat Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.

   “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.”

3. sıfat Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
4. sıfat Continuing for a long period; eternal.

   “this everlasting nonsense”

5. sıfat Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.

   “It is never dark here, you are novv come to the Country of Everlaſting Day; VVhat think you? Is not this Eliſium?”

6. sıfat Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.

   “[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.”

7. sıfat Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
8. sıfat Of a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).

   “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.”

9. sıfat Used as an intensifier.

   “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.”

10. zarf Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.

    “[…] Miranda’s impression, conveyed in privacy to Jane, was that Hannah was close as the bark of a tree, and consid’able selfish too; that when she’d clim’ as fur as she could in the world, she’d kick the ladder out from under her, everlastin’ quick; […]”

11. zarf In an everlasting (adjective sense 1) manner; forever.

    “You your ſelves in the opinion of this everlaſting talkative Advocate of the King, your accuſer, vvent more than half-vvay tovvards it; […]”

12. isim Chiefly with a descriptive word: short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)

    “With a backward look Small said, “What a lovely lily!” / “Well enough but strong-smelling, gaudy. Come see the everlastings.””

13. isim Preceded by the: someone or something that lasts forever, or that that has always existed and will continue to exist forever; an eternal, an immortal; specifically (Christianity), God.

    “[T]he people of Thebais in Ægipt, reiected all the ſaid abſurdities of many Goddes, ſaying that there was none other God but only he whom they called Cnef [Kneph?], which was neuer borne, nor could euer dye, that is to ſay the Euerlaſting.”

14. isim Synonym of lasting (“(uncountable) a durable, plain, woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes; (countable) a quantity of such fabric”).
15. isim Short for everlasting trimming (“(uncountable) an embroidered edging used on underclothes; (countable) a quantity of such edging”)