everseeing
adjUK /ˈɛv.əˌsiː.ɪŋ/ · US /ˈɛv.ɚˌsi.ɪŋ/
Etymology From ever + seeing.
1
Uncommon Which sees unceasingly; constantly seeing.
- Here was alſo Argos built, by that all everſeeing Argos, ſo much celebrated by ancient Poets: […]1638, Lewes Roberts, “Of Lepanto, and the trade thereof” (chapter CCXLV), in The Merchants Mappe of Commerce, London: […] R. O. for Ralph Mabb, →OCLC, page 188:
- Oh thou! whose everseeing eye can pierce The misty shades of night, and penetrate The deep recesses of the human heart;1833, Margaret Miller Davidson, “To the Deity”, in Washington Irving, editor, Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, published 1841, →OCLC, page 202:
- Related terms
- all-seeing