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EVER-PRESENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ever-present mean?
• EVER-PRESENT (adjective)
The adjective EVER-PRESENT has 1 sense:
1. being always present
Familiarity information: EVER-PRESENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being always present
Similar:
present (being or existing in a specified place)
Context examples
There was nothing that he liked to talk of more than his old battles, but he would stop if he saw his little wife coming, for the one great shadow in her life was the ever-present fear that some day he would throw down sledge and rasp and be off to the ring once more.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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