EVERMORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evermore mean? 

• EVERMORE (adverb)
  The adverb EVERMORE has 2 senses:

1. at any future time; in the future

2. for a limitless time

  Familiarity information: EVERMORE used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERMORE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At any future time; in the future

Synonyms:

evermore; forevermore

Context example:

lead a blameless life evermore

Sense 2

Meaning:

For a limitless time

Synonyms:

eternally; everlastingly; evermore; forever

Context example:

brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore

 Context examples 

Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“Now, the best thing you can do, sir, if you'll allow me to advise you,” said my aunt, after silently observing him, “is to abjure that occupation for evermore.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We were very happy; and that evening, as the last of its race, and destined evermore to close that volume of my life, will never pass out of my memory.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the ensuing interval, I told Miss Mills that she was evermore my friend, and that my heart must cease to vibrate ere I could forget her sympathy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Farewell, evermore.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If she were not true to it, might the object she now had in life, which bound her to something devoid of evil, in its passing away from her, leave her more forlorn and more despairing, if that were possible, than she had been upon the river's brink that night; and then might all help, human and Divine, renounce her evermore!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“My dooty here, sir,” said Mr. Peggotty, “is done. I'm a going to seek my—” he stopped, and went on in a firmer voice: “I'm a going to seek her. That's my dooty evermore.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)