ever-loving

See also: everloving

English

Adjective

ever-loving (comparative more ever-loving, superlative most ever-loving)

  1. That loves forever.
    • 1652, Ralph Venning, Mysteries and Revelations, OCLC 68141150:
      When the All-blessed Spirit of the ever living and ever-loving God hath given his teſtimony...
    • 1934, Damon Runyon, Blue Plate Special, OCLC 19460336:
      Why not call your ever-loving wife?
  2. General intensifier, often with beat.
    • 1933, Rollin Kirby, “The death of a puppet”, in Vanity Fair, volume 41, page 66:
      I could have kicked the ever-loving hell out'n you, if I'd had my mind on it.
    • 1982, Lewis Perdue, Queens Gate Reckoning, →ISBN, page 296:
      What in ever-loving hell could you have done?

Noun

ever-loving (plural ever-lovings)

  1. One's wife.
    • 1959 December 24, “People Are”, in Jet‎, page 42:
      That Fairfield, Ala., husband who was called home from work to find his ever-loving and her gentleman "guest" suffering from knife wounds and the bedroom a wreck.
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