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forever, adv.|fəˈrɛvə(r)|
1. The phrase for ever (see ever 5 b), written as one word. Chiefly U.S. exc. in sense ‘incessantly’.
1670Eachard Cont. Clergy Pref., An honest..wisher, that the best of our clergy might forever continue as they are. 1696Tate & Brady Ps. cxxviii. 1 Forever blest be God the Lord. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 250 The only true estate forever we can purchase by our care and diligence, lies in the sentiments of the heart. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 322, I will speak of them forever, to my last breath. 1839Carlyle Chartism iii. (1858) 14 The whole result is forever unattainable. 1875T. Hill True Order Studies 91 The children..are forever questioning concerning the great lumps of pudding stone.
2. quasi-n. Eternity, perpetuity.
1858Kingsley Farewell 7 Make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand sweet song. 1881E. Coxon Basil Pl. II. 232 This short for-ever of earth.
So foˈrevermore adv.: see evermore 1 b.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iv. viii. (1871) 170 Farewell forevermore, ye Girondins. 1872Longfellow Christus Introitus 46 Forevermore, it shall be as it hath been heretofore.
▸ hyperbolically. A very long time, esp. a (seemingly) inordinate amount of time.
1861Atlantic Monthly Apr. 486 They will..Usher us into her splendid saloon: There we sit waiting and waiting forever. 1894M. M. Dodge When Life is Young 54 See how full the stocking is! Mine would have been too small. I borrowed this for Santa Claus. It isn't fair you know, To make him wait forever for a little girl to grow. 1923D. C. Fisher Raw Material 146 Experience had told them the only thing to do was to let the chicks alone till they got used to a new idea. That always took forever. 1963R. Wolff I, Keturah ii. i. 156 It took forever for her to finish the glass. 2001Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 26 Feb. Does Betty end up with Armando, who one night in a fit of drunken passion kissed her, or will she run off with the loyal nerd she has known forever? |