everduring
adjEtymology From ever + dure + -ing.
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Obsolete Everlasting.
- Now curſed Humber haſt thou payd thy due, / For thy deceits and craftie trecheries, / For all thy guiles, and damned ſtratagems, / With loſſe of life, and euerduring ſhame.c. 1580s–1590s, [possibly Robert Greene, formerly attributed to William Shakespeare], The Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, […], London: […] Thomas Creede, published 1595, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
- But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me […].1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: