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/ˈɔlwˌeɪz/ /ˈɔlwiz/ Listen

adverb

Always adv.

At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. "Even in Heaven his (Mammon's) looks and thoughts."

Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; opposed to sometimes or occasionally. "He always rides a black galloway."

Ay, Aye adv. Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time. "For his mercies aye endure."

For aye, always; forever; eternally.

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Etymology of 'Always'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Always" Quotes from Famous Books

... great stir her appearance in the vessel would create! "Heavens," one would say, "what a beautiful wife our captain has!" Yes, the captain is a man of taste. "The captain, always the captain. O, how grand it sounded! The captain loves her so much," the sailors would also say, "that he scarcely takes his eyes from her, and how affectionately she looks at him! O, it must be a happy life, ...

— The Home in the Valley • Emilie F. Carlen

... all in all, to convince him of Turner's inevitable perception, and of the entire supremacy of his mountain drawing over all that had previously existed. And if he is able to refer, even to the engravings (though I desire always that what I state should be tested by the drawings only) of any others of his elaborate hill-subjects, and will examine their details with careful reference to the laws explained in this chapter, he will find that ...

— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

... brother who had taken the message was her father, that he was now eighty-two years old and still spoke of his long dead and greatly loved sister, and always said he had never forgiven and would never forgive his father, dead half a century ago, for having refused to go to his dying daughter and ...

— A Traveller in Little Things • W. H. Hudson

... on the Continent and with all the resources of a regenerated France at his command, Bonaparte now undertook the project of a descent upon England on such a scale as never before. Hazardous as he always realized the operation to be—it was a thousand to one chance, he told the British envoys, that he and his army would end at the bottom of the sea—he was definitely committed to it by his own threats and by the expectation of France that he would ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

... some man buys the privilege of running the Joss house, and charges each worshipper a small fee. The devotee falls on his knees, lays his forehead to the floor, and invocates the god of his choice. Soothsayers are always in attendance, and for a small sum one may ...

— An Ohio Woman in the Philippines • Emily Bronson Conger

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