ever-damned

English

Adjective

ever-damned (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Condemned to hell forever.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, pages 13–14:

     And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, / A waite whereto their ſeruice he applyes, / To aide his friendes, or fray his enimies: [...]

   • 1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland‎^[1], London: Thomas Woodcocke, The Eighth Eglog, page 55:

     My Muse may not affect night-charming spels,
     whose force effects th’ Olympicke vault to quake,
     Nor call those grysly Goblins from their Cels,
     the euer-damned frye of Limbo lake.

   • 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVIII. The Persecution. Stanza 35.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC, page 350, column 1:

     [...] He ſcorn’d to chide / The ſtomackfull Feind, ſince ever-damned He / Sufficiently pays for his endleſſe Pride, [...]

   • 1884, Sidney Lanier, “Street-Cries, III. How Love Looked for Hell”, in Poems of Sidney Lanier‎^[2], New York: Scribner, page 91:

     Hell’s not below, nor yet above,
     ’Tis fixed in the ever-damnèd soul—