ever-damned
English
Adjective
ever-damned (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Condemned to hell forever.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 38, pages 13–14:
- And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, / A waite whereto their ſeruice he applyes, / To aide his friendes, or fray his enimies: [...]
- 1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, The Eighth Eglog, p. 55,
- My Muse may not affect night-charming spels,
- whose force effects th’ Olympicke vault to quake,
- Nor call those grysly Goblins from their Cels,
- the euer-damned frye of Limbo lake.
- 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVIII. The Persecution.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] George Boddington, […], published 1651, OCLC 1227528801, stanza 35, page 350, column 1:
- [...] He ſcorn’d to chide / The ſtomackfull Feind, ſince ever-damned He / Sufficiently pays for his endleſſe Pride, [...]
- 1884, Sidney Lanier, “Street-Cries, III. How Love Looked for Hell” in Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York: Scribner, p. 91,
- Hell’s not below, nor yet above,
- ’Tis fixed in the ever-damnèd soul—
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