perpetually

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/pəˈpɛtʃʊəli/
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/pəˈpɛtʃʊəli/ · /pəˈpɛtjʊəli/ · /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃuəli/

Definition of perpetually

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. Seeming to never end; endlessly; constantly.
    “For whiche offence oure holy fader the pope enioyned hym to make hym to be prayed for perpetually / ⁊ lyke as he had done too be taken frome hym his naturall lyfe therfore he ſholde do foũde four tapers to brẽne perpetually about his body yͭ for yͤ extynccõn of his bodely lyf his ſoule may euer be remẽbred ⁊ lyf in heuẽ in ſpyrytuall lyfe”
    “Now her work dropped on her knee, and her book fell from her hand; she was perpetually seeking excuses for change of place; and the change brought added discomfort.”
    “But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.”
    “Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms.”

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Etymology

From Middle English perpetuelly; equivalent to perpetual + -ly.

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