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Everlasting vs Everloving - What's the difference?

everlasting | everloving |

As adjectives the difference between everlasting and everloving

is that everlasting is lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal while everloving is which loves unceasingly or unconditionally.

As nouns the difference between everlasting and everloving

is that everlasting is an everlasting flower while everloving is one who is unceasingly loved by another.

As an adverb everloving is

generic intensifier.

everlasting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.
  • * (rfdate), (w) xx1. 33
    • The Everlasting God.
  • Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive.
  • * (rfdate), (w) xvii. 8
    • I will give to thee, and to thy seed after theethe land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
  • * (rfdate), (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • And heard thy everlasting yawn confess / The pains and penalties of idleness.
  • (label) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time).
  • (label) Extremely.
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    Usage notes

    * Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. *: Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. -(William Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * eternal, immortal, interminable, endless, never-ending, infinite, unlimited, unceasing, uninterrupted, continual, unintermitted, incessant * (existing with infinite temporal duration ) sempiternal

    Antonyms

    * (of a short life) ephemeral * (existing or continuing without end) finite, limited, mortal

    Derived terms

    * everlasting flower. * everlasting pea

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An everlasting flower.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 313:
    • ‘It is true perhaps it is too late now for you to look like a rose; but you can always look like an everlasting .’
  • A cloth fabric for shoes, etc.
    • (Webster 1913) English karmadharaya compounds

    everloving

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • which loves unceasingly or unconditionally
    • I am, as always, your everloving servant.
    Above all else, focus the gaze of your heart on the ever-living, everloving, everlasting Christ Himself - J. Sidlow Baxter, 1994
  • Of or relating to one who is everloving (1), or to everlasting love
    • Under his everloving guidance and inspiration a number of humanitarian activities were initiated at Poona - Swami Jyotirmayananda, 1986
    ''We have lost an understanding of our one common vocation: to grow into an everloving relationship with God and thereby with our true selves,..." - John Westerhoff, 2000
  • which is loved unceasingly
    • My everloving vodka's tucked away in my backpack, and maybe Cherry'll bring some weed and I can do all kinds of messing around. - Martha O'Connor, 2005
    ...while her hands slid down to envelop his bulbous underpart, massaging the warm, moist, flaccid skin nested there with those everloving golden curls,... - Pamela Beck and Patti Massman, 1988
    There was days I'd walk by him in his chair in front of his everloving TV set and I'd think, ‘Well, now, what if Harland was to die on me?' - Barbara Kingsolver, 1999
  • (slang) Generic intensifier.
    • What the everloving fuck?!
    Holy everloving shit!
    You're out of your everloving mind!
    The fact is, Albert Grubb had an everloving , gut-twisting need to go home. - Joseph Wambaugh, 1983
    Well, what everloving else was there to do in this hellhole? - Albert Grey, 1989

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who is unceasingly loved by another
    • I kissed her, a little more than dutifully, as a man will kiss his everloving after a couple of nights of absence. - Author unknown, 1938
    You're an everloving. - Will Greene, date unknown, ISBN 0822209551
    hastily swung towards the curb, halted by the shop the everloving indicated. - Author unknown, 1925
    ...register to the fact that his everloving has taken a walkout powder." - Ann Head, 1967

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (slang) Generic intensifier.
    • Didn't have time yesterday, you run off so everloving early. - Rilla Askew, 1997
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