everloving
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See also: ever-loving
English
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Adjective
[edit]everloving (comparative more everloving, superlative most everloving)
- which loves unceasingly or unconditionally
- I am, as always, your everloving servant.
- Above all else, focus the gaze of your heart on the ever-living, everloving, everlasting Christ Himself - J. Sidlow Baxter, 1994
- Of or relating to one who is everloving (1), or to everlasting love
- Under his everloving guidance and inspiration a number of humanitarian activities were initiated at Poona - Swami Jyotirmayananda, 1986
- We have lost an understanding of our one common vocation: to grow into an everloving relationship with God and thereby with our true selves,... - John Westerhoff, 2000
- which is loved unceasingly
- My everloving vodka's tucked away in my backpack, and maybe Cherry'll bring some weed and I can do all kinds of messing around. - Martha O'Connor, 2005
- ...while her hands slid down to envelop his bulbous underpart, massaging the warm, moist, flaccid skin nested there with those everloving golden curls,... - Pamela Beck and Patti Massman, 1988
- There was days I'd walk by him in his chair in front of his everloving TV set and I'd think, ‘Well, now, what if Harland was to die on me?' - Barbara Kingsolver, 1999
- (slang) Generic intensifier.
- Synonyms: everliving, motherloving
- What the everloving fuck?!
- Holy everloving shit!
- You're out of your everloving mind!
- The fact is, Albert Grubb had an everloving, gut-twisting need to go home. - Joseph Wambaugh, 1983
- Well, what everloving else was there to do in this hellhole? - Albert Grey, 1989
Noun
[edit]everloving (plural everlovings)
- one who is unceasingly loved by another
- I kissed her, a little more than dutifully, as a man will kiss his everloving after a couple of nights of absence. - Author unknown, 1938
- You're an everloving. - Will Greene, date unknown, →ISBN
- hastily swung towards the curb, halted by the shop the everloving indicated. - Author unknown, 1925
- ...register to the fact that his everloving has taken a walkout powder." - Ann Head, 1967
Adverb
[edit]everloving (comparative more everloving, superlative most everloving)
- (slang) Generic intensifier.
- Didn't have time yesterday, you run off so everloving early. - Rilla Askew, 1997