ever : Idioms & Phrases

• now and then; often. See under Anon.

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• continually; constantly. Obs. Chaucer.

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• adverb (intensifier for adjectives) very
  ever.
  
  • she was ever so friendly

WordNet

• 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." 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.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite marked by continuous change or effective action
  changing.
  

WordNet

• adjective satellite being always present
  

WordNet

• eternally. See Forever.
• eternally; at all times. See Forever.

Webster 1913

• emphatically forever. Shak.

  She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day. Prof. Wilson.

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• an emphatic "forever."

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• (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.

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• . See under Ever, and Ere.

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• to hoodwink; to get the advantage of . Colloq.

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Who`so-ev"er pronoun

Definitions

1. Whatsoever person; any person whatever that; whoever.

   Whosoever will, let him take . . . freely. Rev. xxii. 17.

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