Ever vs Always - What's the difference?
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Always.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever -renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
At any time.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
In any way.
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(epidemiology) Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.
* 1965 , Reuben Hill, The family and population control: a Puerto Rican experiment in social change
At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually.
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, title= Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly;—opposed to sometimes or occasionally.
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*1840 ,
*:His liveries are black,—his carriage is black,—he always rides a black galloway,—and, faith, if he ever marry again, I think he will show his respect to the sainted Maria by marrying a black woman.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations has waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay,
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (lb) In any event.
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In informal terms the difference between ever and always
is that ever is As intensifier.always is in any event.As adverbs the difference between ever and always
is that ever is always while always is at all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually.As an adjective ever
is occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.ever
English
(wikipedia ever)Adverb
(-)Derived terms
(terms derived from ever) * e’er * everchanging * everlasting * everloving * evermind * ever-present * ever since * ever smoker * ever so * every * forever, for ever, for ever more * for ever and ever, forever and ever * happily ever after * however * never * never ever * whatever * whatsoever * whenever * whichever * whoeverAdjective
(-)- This family empathy measure is highly related to ever use of birth control but not to any measure of continuous use.
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(wikipedia always)Alternative forms
* alwayes (obsolete)Adverb
(-)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
