everliving

everliving

English

Alternative forms

• ever-living

Etymology

ever +‎ living

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Adjective

everliving (not comparable)

1. Which lives or continues forever; immortal; everlasting.
2. (by extension) Which will never be forgotten.
3. 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

4. (slang) Generic intensifier.
   • 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!

Noun

everliving (uncountable)

1. 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.