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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/everlasting/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/everlasting/#x1)
- Dear me! what an everlasting pity! (Tanglewood Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/everlasting/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/everlasting/#x3)

### 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,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.952/)
- [Trust ye in the LORD for ever, for the LORD is GOD, an everlasting Rock.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.526/)
- [Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.696/)
- [O Israel, that art saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1019/)
- [That divided the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting name?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1355/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «everlasting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/everlasting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.