ever-loving

See also: everloving

English

Adjective

ever-loving (comparative more ever-loving, superlative most ever-loving)

1. That loves forever.
   • 1652, Ralph Venning, Mysteries and Revelations, →OCLC:

     When the All-blessed Spirit of the ever living and ever-loving God hath given his teſtimony...

   • 1934, Damon Runyon, Blue Plate Special, →OCLC:

     Why not call your ever-loving wife?

2. General intensifier, often with beat or other verbs of violence.

   Are you out of your ever-loving mind?

   • 1933, Rollin Kirby, “The death of a puppet”, in Vanity Fair, volume 41, page 66:

     I could have kicked the ever-loving hell out'n you, if I'd had my mind on it.

   • 1982, Lewis Perdue, Queens Gate Reckoning, →ISBN, page 296:

     What in ever-loving hell could you have done?

Noun

ever-loving (plural ever-lovings)

1. One's wife.
   • 1959 December 24, “People Are”, in Jet‎^[1], page 42:

     That Fairfield, Ala., husband who was called home from work to find his ever-loving and her gentleman "guest" suffering from knife wounds and the bedroom a wreck.