Everlasting means continuing on and on with no end at all. Everlasting love, everlasting peace, an everlasting flower.
It belongs to love, peace and life in religious language, and to dried flowers that keep their colour, which are sold as everlasting. It is stronger and older-sounding than permanent, and it always carries a hope rather than a measurement.
1adjectiveeverlastingContinuing on and on with no end.
“They promised each other everlasting love on their wedding day.”
everlasting is a quality of duration.
Ever plus lasting, recorded in Middle English. It translated Latin and Greek terms for eternity in the Bible.
Proto-Indo-European
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Middle English
ever-lasting — (adjective) eternal, perpetual; constant; (adverb) eternally; (noun) eternity
English, today
everlasting
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From Middle English ever-lasting (“(adjective) eternal, perpetual; constant; (adverb) eternally; (noun) eternity”), from ever (“at all times, always, constantly; eternally, perpetually; regularly; etc.”) + lasting (“continuing, lasting; eternal; etc.”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA