ever-damned
English
Adjective
ever-damned (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Condemned to hell forever.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 1, p. 13,[1]
- And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd
- Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes
- Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd,
- A waite whereto their seruice he applyes,
- 1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, The Eighth Eglog, p. 55,[2]
- My Muse may not affect night-charming spels,
- whose force effects th’ Olympicke vault to quake,
- Nor call those grysly Goblins from their Cels,
- the euer-damned frye of Limbo lake.
- 1648, Joseph Beaumont, Psyche, London: George Boddington, Canto 18, stanza 35, p. 350,[3]
- […] He scorn’d to chide
- The stomackfull Feind, since ever-damned He
- Sufficiently pays for his endlesse Pride,
- 1884, Sidney Lanier, “Street-Cries, III. How Love Looked for Hell” in Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York: Scribner, p. 91,[4]
- Hell’s not below, nor yet above,
- ’Tis fixed in the ever-damnèd soul—
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 1, p. 13,[1]