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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
E'er \E'er\ (?; 277), adverb A contraction for ever. See {Ever}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ever \Ev"er\adv. [OE. ever, [ae]fre, AS. [ae]fre; perh. akin to AS. [=a] always. Cf. {Aye}, {Age},{Evry}, {Never}.] [Sometimes contracted into {e'er}.]
1. At any time; at any period or point of time.
No man ever yet hated his own flesh. --Eph. v. 29.
2. At all times; through all time; always; forever.
He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty. --Dryder.
3. Without cessation; continually.
Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. ''His the old man e'er a son?'' --Shak.
To produce as much as ever they can. --M. Arnold.
{Ever and anon}, now and then; often. See under {Anon}.
{Ever is one}, continually; constantly. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Ever so}, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; -- used to intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or adverb. See {Never so}, under {Never}. ''Let him be ever so rich.'' --Emerson.
And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has placed him wrong. --Pope.
You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters. --Thackeray.
{For ever}, eternally. See {Forever}.
{For ever and a day}, emphatically forever. --Shak.
She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day. --Prof. Wilson.
{Or ever} (for or ere), before. See {Or}, {ere}. [Archaic]
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! --Shak.
Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
e'er
adverb: at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time"; "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever hoping to strike it rich"; "ever busy" [syn: {always}, {ever}] [ant: {never}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
EER An extended {entity-relationship model}.
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