everlasting

«everlasting» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: endless, forever — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

endless, forever

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

lasting forever, without any end. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it still means never ending, but 'everlasting hills' and 'everlasting entity' mean eternal, a grander and older sense; 'everlasting pity' is the everyday exaggerated sense.

examples

• And for the tops of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills, (Torah DEU.33.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• Dear me! what an everlasting pity! (Tanglewood Tales) tree →
• 1) Our author maintains that there is a first intelligent, self-existing, almighty, eternal ruling cause of all things, and that an everlasting entity produced nonentities by a progression of effects. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

primary record

everlasting

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 25 (Torah 15, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 2.8 (Torah alone 35.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And for the tops of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
• Trust ye in the LORD for ever, for the LORD is GOD, an everlasting Rock.
• Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?'
• O Israel, that art saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• That divided the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting name?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «everlasting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.