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English
Adjective
ever-damned (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Condemned to hell forever.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, pages 13–14:And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, / A waite whereto their ſeruice he applyes, / To aide his friendes, or fray his enimies: [...]
1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, The Eighth Eglog, page 55:My Muse may not affect night-charming spels,
whose force effects th’ Olympicke vault to quake,
Nor call those grysly Goblins from their Cels,
the euer-damned frye of Limbo lake.
1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVIII. The Persecution.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, , London: George Boddington, , published 1651, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 350, column 1:[...] He ſcorn’d to chide / The ſtomackfull Feind, ſince ever-damned He / Sufficiently pays for his endleſſe Pride, [...]
1884, Sidney Lanier, “Street-Cries, III. How Love Looked for Hell”, in Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York: Scribner, page 91:Hell’s not below, nor yet above,
’Tis fixed in the ever-damnèd soul—