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PERPETUALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without interruption
Example:
the world is constantly changing
Synonyms:
always; constantly; forever; incessantly; perpetually
Classified under:
Pertainym:
perpetual (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Everlastingly; for all time
Example:
rays...streaming perpetually from the sun
Classified under:
Pertainym:
perpetual (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)
Context examples:
It was the first of the many fights he was to have with Lip-lip, for they were enemies from the start, born so, with natures destined perpetually to clash.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I slept some hours, but perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn House.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Fortunately, the weather is so hot that she cannot get cold; but still the anxiety and the perpetually being wakened is beginning to tell on me, and I am getting nervous and wakeful myself.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She was, moreover, perpetually hearing about him; for, excepting when at Hartfield, she was always among those who saw no fault in Mr. Elton, and found nothing so interesting as the discussion of his concerns; and every report, therefore, every guess—all that had already occurred, all that might occur in the arrangement of his affairs, comprehending income, servants, and furniture, was continually in agitation around her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I improved, however, sensibly in this science, but not sufficiently to follow up any kind of conversation, although I applied my whole mind to the endeavour, for I easily perceived that, although I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become master of their language, which knowledge might enable me to make them overlook the deformity of my figure, for with this also the contrast perpetually presented to my eyes had made me acquainted.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Now it was Mr. Wickfield, now Agnes, now the excellence of Mr. Wickfield, now my admiration of Agnes; now the extent of Mr. Wickfield's business and resources, now our domestic life after dinner; now, the wine that Mr. Wickfield took, the reason why he took it, and the pity that it was he took so much; now one thing, now another, then everything at once; and all the time, without appearing to speak very often, or to do anything but sometimes encourage them a little, for fear they should be overcome by their humility and the honour of my company, I found myself perpetually letting out something or other that I had no business to let out and seeing the effect of it in the twinkling of Uriah's dinted nostrils.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Hated by his kind and by mankind, indomitable, perpetually warred upon and himself waging perpetual war, his development was rapid and one-sided.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
For although, since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
