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Princeton's WordNet

  1. perpetuallyadverb

    everlastingly; for all time

    "rays...streaming perpetually from the sun"- Stuart Chase

  2. constantly, always, forever, perpetually, incessantlyadverb

    without interruption

    "the world is constantly changing"

Wiktionary

  1. perpetuallyadverb

    Seeming to never end; endlessly; constantly.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Perpetuallyadverb

    Constantly; continually; incessantly.

    Etymology: from perpetual.

    This verse is every where sounding the very thing in your ears; yet the numbers are perpetually varied, so that the same sounds are never repeated twice. Dryden.

    In passing from them to great distances, doth it not grow denser and denser perpetually; and thereby cause the gravity of those great bodies towards one another. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

    The bible and common prayer book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language, especially to the common people. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. perpetually

    Perpetually refers to something that is continuous, unending, or never ceasing; occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted. It can also refer to an action or state that is persistent or constant.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Perpetuallyadverb

    in a perpetual manner; constantly; continually

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of perpetually in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of perpetually in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of perpetually in a Sentence

  1. Elizabeth Gaskell:

    My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  2. Nicholas Alahverdian:

    Perpetually restless, Thomas Wolfe was “without a home — a vagabond since [he] was seven” and seeking out where he belonged physically (i.e. in Asheville, his home or Harvard) as well as intellectually. This concept that he was indeed without a father led him to gain greater understanding, eventually realizing that his search for a patriarch was not merely a “father in the flesh,” but a substitution for God, a guiding light, and an alluring source of inspiration.

  3. Milan Kundera:

    The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

  4. Roger Byron:

    American Atheists Oklahoma State Director Tim Ward said in a statement. Roger Byron, senior counsel toFirst Liberty Institute -- the group that successfullydefendedthe Bladensburg Peace Cross at the Supreme Court -- disagrees. SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO DISPLAY IN GOD WE TRUST, UNDER TERMS OF NEW LAW Despite the claims of the perpetually offended, there are few things in our country today more unifying across the cultural and political spectrum than our national motto.

  5. Harriet Martineau:

    Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

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