ever-damned

English

Adjective

ever-damned (not comparable)

1. (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—