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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At all times; all the time and on every occasion
Example:
ever busy
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Antonym:
never (not ever; at no time in the past or future)
Sense 2
Meaning:
At any time
Example:
the best con man of all time
Synonyms:
ever; of all time
Classified under:
Sense 3
Meaning:
(intensifier for adjectives) very
Example:
she was ever so friendly
Synonyms:
ever; ever so
Classified under:
Adverbs
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Context examples:
“Peggotty,” says I, suddenly, “were you ever married?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Far as it might have seemed, no man has ever seen very far into Wolf Larsen’s soul, or seen it at all,—of this I am convinced.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"It's the first time he ever barked," Madge said.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I’m sure it must look very bad, Mr. Holmes, and I am not aware that in my whole life such a thing has ever happened before.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Black Dog as ever was, come for to see his old shipmate Billy, at the Admiral Benbow inn.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The pang is over, his sufferings are at an end for ever.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You can think that we did justice to all the good things, and Miss Hinton would ever keep pressing us to pass our cup and to fill our plate.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is ever some cursed sheepskin in their strong boxes to prove that the rich man should be richer and the poor man poorer.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then said Fundevogel: “Neither now, nor ever.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
