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English Dictionary: ever	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ever adv at any time; "did you ever smoke?"; "the best con man of all time" Synonym(s): ever, of all time at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time"; "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever hoping to strike it rich"; "ever busy" Synonym(s): always, ever, e'er Antonym(s): ne'er, never (intensifier for adjectives) very; "she was ever so friendly" Synonym(s): ever, ever so
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ever \Ev"er\adv. [OE. ever, [91]fre, AS. [91]fre; perh. akin to AS. [be] always. Cf. {Aye}, {Age},{Evry}, {Never}.] [Sometimes contracted into {e'er}.] 1. At any time; at any period or point of time. No man ever yet hated his own flesh. --Eph. v. 29. 2. At all times; through all time; always; forever. He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty. --Dryder. 3. Without cessation; continually. Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. [bd]His the old man e'er a son?[b8] --Shak. To produce as much as ever they can. --M. Arnold. {Ever and anon}, now and then; often. See under {Anon}. {Ever is one}, continually; constantly. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Ever so}, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; -- used to intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or adverb. See {Never so}, under {Never}. [bd]Let him be ever so rich.[b8] --Emerson. And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has placed him wrong. --Pope. You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters. --Thackeray. {For ever}, eternally. See {Forever}. {For ever and a day}, emphatically forever. --Shak. She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day. --Prof. Wilson. {Or ever} (for or ere), before. See {Or}, {ere}. [Archaic] Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! --Shak. Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.