ever-damned
adj1
Obsolete Condemned to hell forever.
- 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: [...]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, pages 13–14:
- 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.1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, The Eighth Eglog, page 55:
2 more examples
- [...] He ſcorn’d to chide / The ſtomackfull Feind, ſince ever-damned He / Sufficiently pays for his endleſſe Pride, [...]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:
- Hell’s not below, nor yet above, ’Tis fixed in the ever-damnèd soul—1884, Sidney Lanier, “Street-Cries, III. How Love Looked for Hell”, in Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York: Scribner, page 91: