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   Ever  adv. [OE. ever, æfre, AS. æfre; perh. akin to AS. ā always.  Cf. Aye, Age,Evry, Never.] [Sometimes contracted into e'er.]
   At any time; at any period or point of time.
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   No man ever yet hated his own flesh.
   Eph. v. 29.
   
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   At all times; through all time; always; forever.
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   He shall ever love, and always be
   The subject of by scorn and cruelty.
   Dryder.
   
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   Without cessation; continually.
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   ☞ Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. “His the old man e'er a son?”
   Shak.
   
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   To produce as much as ever they can.
   M. Arnold.
   
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   Ever and anon, now and then; often. See under Anon. -- Ever is one, continually; constantly. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ever so, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; -- used to intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or adverb. See Never so, under Never.   “Let him be ever so rich.” Emerson.
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   And all the question (wrangle e'er so long),
   Is only this, if God has placed him wrong.
   Pope.
   
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   You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters.
   Thackeray.
   -- For ever, eternally. See Forever. -- For ever and a day, emphatically forever. Shak.
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   She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day.
   Prof. Wilson.
   -- Or ever (for or ere), before. See Or, ere. [Archaic]
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   Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
   Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
   Shak.
   
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   ☞ Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.
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