ever-damned

English

Adjective

ever-damned (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Condemned to hell forever.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, pages 13–14:
      And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, / A waite whereto their ſeruice he applyes, / To aide his friendes, or fray his enimies: [...]
    • 1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland‎[1], London: Thomas Woodcocke, The Eighth Eglog, page 55:
      My Muse may not affect night-charming spels,
      whose force effects th’ Olympicke vault to quake,
      Nor call those grysly Goblins from their Cels,
      the euer-damned frye of Limbo lake.
    • 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVIII. The Persecution. Stanza 35.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC, page 350, column 1:
      [...] He ſcorn’d to chide / The ſtomackfull Feind, ſince ever-damned He / Sufficiently pays for his endleſſe Pride, [...]
    • 1884, Sidney Lanier, “Street-Cries, III. How Love Looked for Hell”, in Poems of Sidney Lanier‎[2], New York: Scribner, page 91:
      Hell’s not below, nor yet above,
      ’Tis fixed in the ever-damnèd soul—
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