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English
Etymology
From ever + dure + -ing.
Adjective
everduring (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Everlasting.
c. 1580s–1590s, [possibly Robert Greene, formerly attributed to William Shakespeare], The Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, , London: Thomas Creede, published 1595, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:Now curſed Humber haſt thou payd thy due, / For thy deceits and craftie trecheries, / For all thy guiles, and damned ſtratagems, / With loſſe of life, and euerduring ſhame.
1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me […] .