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ever and anon

ever and anon adverb: synonym of occasionally, now and then.

Adverb

ever and anon (not comparable)

  1. (literary) Synonym of occasionally, now and then.
    • Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 12
    • I could see Salemina at the far end of the table radiant with success, the W. S. at her side bending ever and anon to catch the (artificial) pearls of thought that dropped from her lips.1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 6, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC

ever and anon meaning in Tamil

ever and anon in Tamil

அடுத்தடுத்து

Examples of ever and anon in a sentence

  • Ever and anon the guard's face could be dimly seen at his window, more like a ghost than a man; [...].1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 134:
  • Pippin never forgot that hour in the great hall under the piercing eye of the Lord of Gondor, stabbed ever and anon by his shrewd questions1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 1:

Synonyms of ever and anon

Questions about ever and anon

What does ever and anon mean?
Ever and anon means synonym of occasionally, now and then.
What is ever and anon in Tamil?
Ever and anon in Tamil is அடுத்தடுத்து. See Ever and anon meaning in Tamil.
How do you use ever and anon in a sentence?
Ever and anon the guard's face could be dimly seen at his window, more like a ghost than a man; [...].
What part of speech is ever and anon?
Ever and anon is an adverb.

Words near ever and anon in the dictionary

  1. Evenwood
  2. Evenwood and Barony
  3. ever
  4. ever after
  5. ever and again
  6. ever and anon
  7. ever and ever
  8. ever since
  9. ever smoker
  10. ever smokers
  11. ever so

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