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Webster 1913 Edition
Nevermore
Nev′er-moreˊ
,adv.
Never again; at no time hereafter.
Testament of Love. Tyndale.
Where springtime of the Hesperides
Begins, but endeth
Begins, but endeth
nevermore
. Longfellow.
Definition 2024
nevermore
nevermore
English
Adverb
nevermore (not comparable)
- Never again.
- 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (published in the New York Evening Mirror)
- And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
- On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
- And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
- And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
- And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
- Shall be lifted - nevermore!
- 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (published in the New York Evening Mirror)
Translations
never again — see never again