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English
Etymology
perpetuous + -ly
Pronunciation
Adverb
perpetuously (not comparable)
- (obsolete, rare) Synonym of perpetually (“everlastingly, in perpetuity, for ever”)
1611, John Speed, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published 1614, page 23:It deserved to be perpetuously memorable.
1683, Edward Hooker, Preface to Pordage’s Mystic Divinitie, page 71:A Conjunction which I wold ever call Copulativ, and make, if I could, perpetuously Consummativ.
Translations
everlastingly, in perpetuity, for ever
— see perpetuallyFurther reading