everduring

From ever +‎ dure +‎ -ing.

everduring (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Everlasting.
   • c. 1580s–1590s, [possibly Robert Greene, formerly attributed to William Shakespeare], The Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, […], London: […] Thomas Creede, published 1595, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:

     Now curſed Humber haſt thou payd thy due, / For thy deceits and craftie trecheries, / For all thy guiles, and damned ſtratagems, / With loſſe of life, and euerduring ſhame.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me […] .