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adverb
E'er  adv.  A contraction for ever. See Ever.



Ever  adv.  (Sometimes contracted into e'er)  
1.
At any time; at any period or point of time. "No man ever yet hated his own flesh."
2.
At all times; through all time; always; forever. "He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty."
3.
Without cessation; continually. Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. "His the old man e'er a son?" "To produce as much as ever they can."
Ever and anon, now and then; often. See under Anon.
Ever is one, continually; constantly. (Obs.)
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. "Let him be ever so rich." "And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has placed him wrong." "You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters."
For ever, eternally. See Forever.
For ever and a day, emphatically forever. "She (Fortune) soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day."
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!" 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.






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"E'er" Quotes from Famous Books



... charmingly, with courtly bearing, in almost maiden modesty. We might all have cause for fear, had any done him aught. However blithely he doth practice chivalry, and howso fair of body he be, yet might he well make many a comely woman weep, should he e'er grow angry. He is so fashioned that in all knightly virtues he must be a bold knight ...
— The Nibelungenlied • Unknown

... ne'er didst thou, fair Mount! when Greece was young, See round thy giant base a brighter choir,[81] Nor e'er did Delphi, when her Priestess sung The Pythian hymn with more than mortal fire, Behold a train more fitting to inspire The song of love, than Andalusia's maids, Nurst in the glowing lap of soft Desire: Ah! that to these were given ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... sound the camel bells, so gay, And merry beats fond Hamet's heart, for he, E'er the dim evening steals upon the day, His children, wife and happy home ...
— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe

... heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. 35 The paths of glory lead but to ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray

... I know my unassisted wit Is all too weak to make me soar so high, For pardon, lady, for this fault I cry, And wiser still I grow remembering it. Yea, will I see what folly 't were to think That largess dropped from thee like dews from heaven, Could e'er be paid by work so frail as mine! To nothingness my art and talent sink; He fails who from his mental stores hath given A thousandfold ...
— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting


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