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单词 everlasting
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Definition of everlasting in English:

everlasting

adjective ɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋˌɛvərˈlæstɪŋ
  • Lasting forever or a very long time.

    the damned would suffer everlasting torment
    an everlasting reminder of this evening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Like God, who made us free, I think it necessary that people be allowed to choose, not only to be eaten, if they will, but even to damn their eternal soul to the everlasting fires of hell.
    • The symbolic process which it idealizes is still called ‘Algorithm’ in modern mathematics, an everlasting tribute to its immortal founder.
    • They've been like a dream, an everlasting dream that will never end.
    • As with the genome, the internet was going to transform our lives, remake society, abolish boom and bust, bring everlasting peace and make the Tories unelectable forever.
    • Her arm had everlasting reminders of her problem.
    • If society made one small change, we would be living in everlasting peace, with boundless prosperity, and experiencing eternal kindness to one another.
    • It develops an everlasting union that lives on forever through the perpetual fruit it bears.
    • Legal principles are not everlasting and immutable givens: they are the contingent products of history.
    • This statement of world-agreed fervent belief reminds us these values are everlasting and of perpetual beauty and may never be tarnished by any national politicians anywhere at any time.
    • If there's anyone out there who can name all the second evictees off the top of their head, they will either earn my undying respect or everlasting contempt.
    • After his arrival, man's everlasting desire for not departing and staying forever in this world is his perpetual passion from time immemorial.
    • A sprig of holly is added as a symbol of everlasting life, and the burning brandy a reminder of the rebirth of the sun.
    • I believed every word that was written in the Vedas about the Almighty, his love, eternal happiness in Heaven, evil, and the torment of everlasting Hell.
    • Bright white sparks rode along the surfaces of the halls, and then the light ceased, and the area was engulfed in eternal, everlasting darkness once more.
    • For example, the idea of a road or a river is a symbol of a never-ending or everlasting journey.
    • Because of the love of God I recoil from any thoughts that after death those who have not pledged their lives to Christ, or who have never heard of Christ, will necessarily be cast out by God into some form of eternal, everlasting punishment.
    • He conveyed to me his love of people, teaching me to see the beauty within, to have empathy for the less fortunate, to make everlasting friendships that endure time and distance.
    • While we cannot know all the details, we know that the belief entails the promise of everlasting life and eternal joy.
    • One ultimate flaw is that good nor evil can never be destroyed, or the balance shall fall and the universe with it, therefore it leaves us in everlasting conflict which shall never end; not least the universe does too.
    • It is the material of his eternal life either in everlasting joy or painful torture.
    Synonyms
    eternal, never-ending, endless, without end, perpetual, undying, immortal, deathless, indestructible, immutable, abiding, enduring, infinite, boundless, timeless
    rare sempiternal, perdurable
    constant, continual, continuous, persistent, sustained, unremitting, relentless, unrelenting, unrelieved, uninterrupted, unbroken, unabating, endless, interminable, never-ending, non-stop, round-the-clock, incessant, ceaseless
noun ɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋˌɛvərˈlæstɪŋ
  • 1the everlastingliterary Eternity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We profess, O God, that you are from everlasting to everlasting, that you are changeless and timeless, that you are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
    • ‘But lord,’ one of the ministers was up on his feet, ‘we are only doing it for you, your eternal glory, your everlasting.’
  • 2A flower of the daisy family with a papery texture, retaining its shape and colour after being dried, especially a helichrysum.

    Also called immortelle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This everlasting provides filler for fresh and dried displays.
    • There are literally thousands of different seeds to choose from such as herbs, vegetables, heirloom flowers, everlastings, grasses and so on.
    • Stone crosses like these are not unfamiliar to you, nor are these dim garlands of everlasting flowers.
    • They can be cut to use fresh or dried as an everlasting flower.
    • You won't see a lot of everlastings but the bush flowers are appearing like varieties of banksias and wattles.

Derivatives

  • everlastingly

  • adverb ɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋliˌɛvərˈlæstɪŋli
    • You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At one minute he conjures up for the listener images of a British landscape and the next he provocatively compares our everlastingly warm shores and other attributes.
      • Grant that they, being here dedicated to thee by our office and ministry, may also be endued with heavenly virtues, and everlastingly rewarded, through thy mercy, O blessed Lord God, who dost live, and govern all things, world without end.
      • Of the principals in these cases, none were to believe the charges more immediately or more everlastingly than the parents.
      • May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
  • everlastingness

  • noun
    • Of course, there is nothing new about associating art with immortality: Shakespeare's sonnets do so repeatedly, Donne imagines a poem as a funeral urn, and Keats sees a Grecian urn as an image of art's everlastingness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The material Benno Kaiser uses, the sand, does not have the same claim of everlastingness as bronze or marble.
      • Our lives and love have an ultimate significance, and ‘we are all heirs of everlastingness,’ so that ‘whatever we do or are furnishes material to the hands which out of perishing stuff create eternal joy.’
      • And what does this signify… other than the everlastingness and everpresence of this holy sacrifice?
      • If the everlastingness of one's unadulterated DNA was the paramount concern - incest would have been the norm.

Rhymes

fasting, lasting
 
 

Definition of everlasting in US English:

everlasting

adjectiveˌɛvərˈlæstɪŋˌevərˈlastiNG
  • Lasting forever or a very long time.

    the damned would suffer everlasting torment
    it would be an everlasting reminder of this evening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because of the love of God I recoil from any thoughts that after death those who have not pledged their lives to Christ, or who have never heard of Christ, will necessarily be cast out by God into some form of eternal, everlasting punishment.
    • I believed every word that was written in the Vedas about the Almighty, his love, eternal happiness in Heaven, evil, and the torment of everlasting Hell.
    • For example, the idea of a road or a river is a symbol of a never-ending or everlasting journey.
    • If there's anyone out there who can name all the second evictees off the top of their head, they will either earn my undying respect or everlasting contempt.
    • He conveyed to me his love of people, teaching me to see the beauty within, to have empathy for the less fortunate, to make everlasting friendships that endure time and distance.
    • One ultimate flaw is that good nor evil can never be destroyed, or the balance shall fall and the universe with it, therefore it leaves us in everlasting conflict which shall never end; not least the universe does too.
    • As with the genome, the internet was going to transform our lives, remake society, abolish boom and bust, bring everlasting peace and make the Tories unelectable forever.
    • They've been like a dream, an everlasting dream that will never end.
    • A sprig of holly is added as a symbol of everlasting life, and the burning brandy a reminder of the rebirth of the sun.
    • This statement of world-agreed fervent belief reminds us these values are everlasting and of perpetual beauty and may never be tarnished by any national politicians anywhere at any time.
    • Like God, who made us free, I think it necessary that people be allowed to choose, not only to be eaten, if they will, but even to damn their eternal soul to the everlasting fires of hell.
    • The symbolic process which it idealizes is still called ‘Algorithm’ in modern mathematics, an everlasting tribute to its immortal founder.
    • It is the material of his eternal life either in everlasting joy or painful torture.
    • If society made one small change, we would be living in everlasting peace, with boundless prosperity, and experiencing eternal kindness to one another.
    • Bright white sparks rode along the surfaces of the halls, and then the light ceased, and the area was engulfed in eternal, everlasting darkness once more.
    • While we cannot know all the details, we know that the belief entails the promise of everlasting life and eternal joy.
    • Legal principles are not everlasting and immutable givens: they are the contingent products of history.
    • It develops an everlasting union that lives on forever through the perpetual fruit it bears.
    • Her arm had everlasting reminders of her problem.
    • After his arrival, man's everlasting desire for not departing and staying forever in this world is his perpetual passion from time immemorial.
    Synonyms
    eternal, never-ending, endless, without end, perpetual, undying, immortal, deathless, indestructible, immutable, abiding, enduring, infinite, boundless, timeless
    constant, continual, continuous, persistent, sustained, unremitting, relentless, unrelenting, unrelieved, uninterrupted, unbroken, unabating, endless, interminable, never-ending, non-stop, round-the-clock, incessant, ceaseless
nounˌɛvərˈlæstɪŋˌevərˈlastiNG
  • 1literary Eternity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We profess, O God, that you are from everlasting to everlasting, that you are changeless and timeless, that you are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
    • ‘But lord,’ one of the ministers was up on his feet, ‘we are only doing it for you, your eternal glory, your everlasting.’
  • 2A flower of the daisy family with a papery texture, retaining its shape and color after being dried, especially a helichrysum.

    Also called immortelle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They can be cut to use fresh or dried as an everlasting flower.
    • Stone crosses like these are not unfamiliar to you, nor are these dim garlands of everlasting flowers.
    • You won't see a lot of everlastings but the bush flowers are appearing like varieties of banksias and wattles.
    • There are literally thousands of different seeds to choose from such as herbs, vegetables, heirloom flowers, everlastings, grasses and so on.
    • This everlasting provides filler for fresh and dried displays.
 
 
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