English

Adjective

everliving ‎(not comparable)

1. Which lives or continues forever; immortal; everlasting.
2. (by extension) Which will never be forgotten.
3. Of or relating to immortality.

   • ...a priest of the eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life - James Joyce (1916, from: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

4. (slang) Generic intensifier.

   • Dewey shrinks back, thinking, This guy's about to come across this desk, beat the everliving **** out of me. - James Hime, 2003

     What the holy everliving **** was he talking about? - Michael Vaughn, 2002

     Fight it—fight it with all my might—and I was getting the everliving **** beaten out of me! - Susan Powter, 1997

Noun

everliving ‎(uncountable)

1. That which is living forever.

   • In fact, the everliving differs from the eternal. - Brian Copenhaver and Trismegistus Hermes, 1995

     Be aware you are, and discover the everliving. - Osho, 1998

     Lucifer and his followers among the Everliving manifested the beauty of God. - Alfred Hamilton, 2000