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  • 31everlasting staircase —    obsolete    a treadmill    The degree of arduousness was regulated by a jailor through a screw; and see screw2:     The convicts names for the treadmill were expressive: the everlasting staircase, or, because the stiff prison clothes scraped… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 32Everlasting League — ▪ Swiss history also called  League Of The Three Forest Cantons,  German  Ewige Bund, or Dreiwaldstätterbund   (Aug. 1, 1291), the inaugural confederation from which, through a long series of accessions, Switzerland grew to statehood. The league… …

    Universalium

  • 33EVERLASTING NO, THE —    Carlyle s name for the spirit of unbelief in God, especially as it manifested itself in his own, or rather Teufelsdröckh s, warfare against it; the spirit, which, as embodied in the MEPHISTOPHELES (q.v.) of Goethe, is for ever denying, der… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 34everlasting life — Endless existence uninterrupted by death. In several parables Jesus taught that this present life leads on to a further phase whose nature depends on our conduct here (Luke 16:25; Matt. 25:46). It is argued by some modern theologians that this… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 35everlasting — adj. & n. adj. 1 lasting for ever. 2 lasting for a long time, esp. so as to become unwelcome. 3 (of flowers) keeping their shape and colour when dried. n. 1 eternity. 2 = IMMORTELLE. Derivatives: everlastingly adv. everlastingness n …

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  • 36forðweard — 1. adj inclined forwards or towards; advanced, progressing, growing, ready; enduring, everlasting, continual; future; 2. adv continually; prospectively; from now on, forwards, onwards; 3. m ( es/ as) look out man, pilot …

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  • 37everlasting — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unending, never ending, without end; ageless, sempiternal; constant, ceaseless, wearisome, perpetual, continual, incessant. See perpetuity, durability. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. eternal, enduring …

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  • 38everlasting — [ˌevəˈlɑːstɪŋ] adj continuing for ever …

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  • 39punishment, everlasting — The ultimate destiny of the irredeemably wicked. The ancient Hebrews regarded sheol, the abode of the dead, as a place of weariness and forgetfulness and not of punishment or retribution for earthly sin. The concept began to emerge later of a… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 40The Everlasting (song) — Infobox Single Name = The Everlasting Artist = Manic Street Preachers from Album = This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours Released = November 30, 1998 Format = CD, cassette Recorded = ? Genre = Rock Length = 6:09 Label = Epic Producer = Chart position =… …

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