everburning
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everburning (not comparable)
- Alternative form of ever-burning
- 1839, Emily C. Agnew, Geraldine: A Tale of Conscience, page 209:
- The deepening twilight threw all into shadow, save where the everburning lamp shed its soft light around the tabernacle.
- 1917, Arent Jan Wensinck, Some Semitic Rites of Mourning and Religion, page 40:
- If we were justified in believing a communication by Keane, it would appear that the everburning light had also passed into Islam.
- 1939, S. Aul A'la Maududi, translated by Abdul Waheed Khan, Jihad in Islam, page 1:
- They themselves look robbers and dacoits on the world stage, armed to the teeth with all kinds of deadly weapons, pillaging the countries and enslaving nations to capture new markets of trade, seize resources of raw material, open lands for colonisation and mines yielding valuable metals to provide fuel for their everburning fire of avarice.
- 2006, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Weatherwitch, →ISBN:
- He was really not as powerful as he would have had people believe—even his apparently everburning flames were fueled by gas piped from underground, which eventually caused an explosion.