everlastingly

English

Etymology

From everlasting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

everlastingly (comparative more everlastingly, superlative most everlastingly)

1. In an everlasting manner; without end; forever.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:forever

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `Curse her, may she be everlastingly accursed.' The arms fell and the flame sank.

   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:

     Their lives are dedicated to world conquest, but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory.

2. Perpetually; constantly.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:continuously

   • 1909, Ford Madox Ford, The English Review, volume 2, page 130:

     They talk about education, everlastingly, as if it were a cure-all instead of a process for making unfit nations unfitter […]