Ever
Ever , adverb
[Old English ever, afre, Anglo-Saxon afre; perh. akin to Anglo-Saxon ā always. Compare Aye, Age,Evry, Never.]
1.
At any time; at any period or point of time.
No man ever yet hated his own flesh.
2.
At all times; through all time; always; forever.
He shall ever love, and always be
The subject of by scorn and cruelty.
3.
Without cessation; continually.
To produce as much as ever they can.
And all the question (wrangle e'er so long),
Is only this, if God has placed him wrong.
You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters.
She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. “His the old man e'er a son?”
Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.