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‖ semper-|ˈsɛmpə(r)|
the L. adv. semper always, used in various nonce-combinations (in imitation of sempervirent, etc.), as semper-annual a., unceasing in annual succession; semper-green, an evergreen; semper-identical a. [after L. phrase semper idem, always the same]; semper-juvenescent a., always growing younger; semper-lenity, unvarying gentleness.
1623Cockeram ii, Accustomed Gentlenesse, Semperlenity. 1694Westmacott Script. Herb. 18 The common Bay-tree, which is a sempergreen, is now commonly found in most Gardens. 1820? Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 98 That perfectly semperidentical display of idiosyncratic egotism which runs through..all his varieties. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 342 Blisses of an immortal and semperjuvenescent life. 1861G. Meredith Evan Harrington xxviii, Supposing Lord Mayor's footmen to be plumed like estridges... What must Lord Mayors be and semperannual Lords? |