Everlasting vs Undeadly - What's the difference?
everlasting | undeadly |
Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.
* (rfdate), (w) xx1. 33
Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive.
* (rfdate), (w) xvii. 8
* (rfdate), (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time).
(label) Extremely.
*, chapter=10
, title= An everlasting flower.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 313:
A cloth fabric for shoes, etc.
(Webster 1913)
English karmadharaya compounds
Not subject to death; immortal.
*1846 , Miles Coverdale, Remains of Myles Coverdale :
*1852 , Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great :
*1957 , Ray C. Petry, Late Medieval Mysticism :
*1979 , Frieda Elaine Penninger, William Caxton :
*2001 , Lynn Kurland, Stardust of Yesterday :
Unable to be killed, quenched, or terminated; eternal; everlasting.
*1993 , William Kaplan, Donald Malcolm McRae, Maxwell Cohen, Law, Policy and International Justice :
Of or pertaining to the undead.
Immortally; eternally.
*2009 , Colleen Gleason, As Shadows Fade :
*2009 , Dakota Cassidy, The Accidental Human :
Not deadly; not causing, producing, or resulting in death; harmless.
*1886 , Homer, Homer's Iliad :
*2002 , John Graves, Goodbye to a River: A Narrative :
*2004 , Troy Blacklaws, Karoo boy :
*2012 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
As adjectives the difference between everlasting and undeadly
is that everlasting is lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal while undeadly is not subject to death; immortal.As a noun everlasting
is an everlasting flower.As an adverb undeadly is
immortally; eternally.everlasting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Everlasting God.
- I will give to thee, and to thy seed after theethe land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
- And heard thy everlasting yawn confess / The pains and penalties of idleness.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}
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 ) sempiternalAntonyms
* (of a short life) ephemeral * (existing or continuing without end) finite, limited, mortalDerived terms
* everlasting flower. * everlasting peaNoun
(en noun)- ‘It is true perhaps it is too late now for you to look like a rose; but you can always look like an everlasting .’
undeadly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) undeedlii, vndeedly, undedlich, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- "The soul also hath her death, namely, when it lacketh and is destitute of the eternal and godly life, which truly and justly is called the life of the soul: but undeadly or immortal is it called, because it never ceaseth to live, how miserable soever the life of it be. [...]"
- He aye was and aye shall be, undeadly and everlasting.
- And also a soul in this state is dwelling between the terms of deadly life and undeadly life.
- But I believe that the undeadly gods have spread and sown the souls within the bodies of mankind to the intent that the men should see and inhabit the countries, [...]
- Tempting as it was to hang up on the man and be done with it, that wouldn't do. Who knew what sort of undeadly minions de Piaget was capable of commanding.
- Much of his subsequent work related to processes for resolving what he once called "undeadly quarrels" in the international arena.
Derived terms
* undeadlinessAdverb
(en adverb)- [...] and it had been Sebastian's fault that her husband was no longer living undeadly by her side.
- Today, almost eight months since they'd met, and sharing her house for four of those months now, Wanda was more in love with Heath than she ever thought was humanly, er, undeadly possible.
Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(-)- Ulysses, knowing well The wound undeadly (setting back his foot to form his stand) Thus spake to Socus: "O thou wretch, thy death is in this hand, That stay'st my victory on Troy, and where thy charge was made In doubtful term [...]"
- [...] among boulders with my weapons deadly and undeadly .
- She does not care if it is a tobaccoroller or molesnake or any undeadly animal.
- [...] each surrounded by a luminous contour, and hang an instant in space, as time slowed and each permutation of shapes appeared, to begin their gentle, undeadly descent, [...]