everliving
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everliving (not comparable)
- Which lives or continues forever; immortal; everlasting.
- Synonym: undying
- Coordinate term: unkillable
- (by extension) Which will never be forgotten.
- Synonym: unforgettable
- Coordinate term: indelible
- Of or relating to immortality.
- 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
- ...a priest of the eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life
- (slang) Generic intensifier.
- Synonyms: everloving, motherloving
- 2003, James Hime, The Night of the Dance:
- Dewey shrinks back, thinking, This guy's about to come across this desk, beat the everliving shit out of me.
- 2002, Michael Vaughn, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- What the holy everliving fuck was he talking about?
- 1997, Susan Powter, Sober...and Staying That Way:
- Fight it—fight it with all my might—and I was getting the everliving hell beaten out of me!
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everliving (uncountable)
- That which is living forever.
- 1995, Brian Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction:
- In fact, the everliving differs from the eternal.
- 1974, Osho, The Book of the Secrets: Discourses on Vigyana Bhairava Tantra:
- Be aware you are, and discover the everliving.
- 2000, Alfred Hamilton, Toadstool Bouquet: Short Fiction by Alfred Hamilton:
- Lucifer and his followers among the Everliving manifested the beauty of God.