单词 | perpetually |
释义 | perpetuallyadv. 1. Everlastingly, eternally, for ever; indefinitely, in perpetuity. Also (archaic): for the rest of one's life. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb] always fortha700 alwayeOE oeOE everOE buten endea1000 echelichec1175 till doomsdayc1175 to timea1200 perdurablyc1275 in ayea1300 without endc1330 anytimea1375 for ay and oc1374 continually1382 perpetuallyc1385 ay-forthc1390 everlastinglyc1390 perpetualc1392 eternallyc1393 endlessa1400 in (also for, to) perpetuitya1400 always?c1425 without timec1425 endlesslya1450 sempiternlyc1450 infinitivec1470 aylastinglyc1475 everlastingc1475 incessantly1481 in saecula saeculorum1481 sempiternally1509 all days1533 for altogether1542 constantly1567 interminate?1567 incorruptibly1579 perpetuously1612 in perpetuum1613 eternal1614 unterminably1631 unfadinglya1672 unendingly1674 for a constancy1710 perennially1729 tarnally1790 imperishably1795 indefectibly1837 immortally1858 fadelessly1861 the world > action or operation > continuing > [adverb] > in a continuous manner or without stopping fastlyOE anonOE everOE everylikec1225 continuallyc1305 atreet1340 unceasinglyc1340 perpetuallyc1385 incessably1398 desselya1400 ithandlya1400 dreichlyc1400 restlessc1400 contunely1447 all alongc1450 dessantlyc1460 incessantly1481 still opece1488 uncessantlya1500 continuinglya1513 in ane1513 away1526 incessant1558 restlessly1567 square1570 stintless1598 ceaselessly?1606 residently1609 unrestingly1621 indesinently1651 jugially1654 unintermissively1656 constantly1682 hand to fist1706 forever1753 unintermittingly1784 round the clock1816 continuously1826 unpausingly1831 sustainedly1842 pauselessly1845 remorselessly1845 around the clock1872 play-by-play1889 ball-by-ball1906 non-stop1920 solidly1937 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1024 He ful soone hem sente To Atthenes to dwellen in prisoun: Perpetuelly [v.rr. perpetuely, perpetually; perpetuell], he nolde no raunsoun. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 23 (MED) Damnyd schalt þou be Into hele perpetualy. 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 10 The foreseid statute..shuld be in his force and virtue fro thens perpetuelly to endure. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxvii. 69 There he buylded his temple on hye..that it might perpetually endure. 1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David ix. v He to all his judgments shall apply Perpetually. a1688 Duke of Buckingham Restoration in Wks. (1775) 106 Can shame remain perpetually in me, And not in others? 1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. i. ii. 80 Farmers left a part of their lands perpetually untilled. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. v. 192 The great estates, in Ireland for example, let under leases perpetually renewable. 1898 Dict. National Biogr. at Sydenham, William At the restoration the act of indemnity included him among the eighteen persons perpetually incapacitated from holding any office. 1936 V. Elwin Leaves from Jungle 128 The Greater Silence is perpetually in force there. 1992 J. Cullis & P. Jones Public Finance & Public Choice (BNC) 238 This has the attraction that poverty is a solvable problem, unlike viewing the bottom 10 per cent as perpetually being in poverty. 2. Without remission or intermission, unfailingly, incessantly; with constant recurrence, continually. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adverb] > without cessation fastlyOE without ceasec1330 without ceasinga1340 unceasinglyc1340 incessably1398 dreichlyc1400 restlessc1400 perpetuallyc1475 incessantly1481 uncessantlya1500 incessant1558 ceaselessly?1606 indesinently1651 jugially1654 unintermissively1656 upon or on a stretch1689 at one or a stretch1774 unabatingly1793 at the stretch1867 never-ceasingly1869 c1475 (?c1400) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 431 Þo þat..bynden hem to kepe perpetuelly. 1525 in J. B. Paul & J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1883) III. 96 Ilk maister of the said craft sall perpetually pay his wolklie penny. 1553 Short Catech. in Lit. & Documents Edw. VI (1844) 506 Yet is his Godhead perpetually present with us. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. G He lived almost perpetually in the Campe. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 105. ¶6 I might likewise mention the Law Pedant, that is perpetually putting Cases. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 127 Encroachments were perpetually committed. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ii. 5 Crisparkle..perpetually pitching himself head-foremost into all the deep running water. 1919 V. Woolf Jrnl. 6 Dec. (1977) I. 316 A mind trained by living perpetually among more highly trained minds. 2002 Chicago Tribune 21 Oct. ii. 1/3 Perpetually smiling guitarist Wayne Coyne crooned flyaway melodies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1385 |
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