adv. Obs. [OE. phrase ǽfre má (see EVER and MO). In the OE. quots. the words have their ordinary sense, so that the phrase = ‘any longer,’ ‘ever again’ (cf. EVERMORE 3 c); but prob. má was also used to emphasize ǽfre in the sense ‘to all future time’; cf. Ger. immer always (:—OHG. io-mêr), immermehr evermore, Fr. jamais ever, never (:—vulgar Lat. jam magis ‘now more’).] = next.
[c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past., lii. 405. Gif hwelc wif forlæt hiere ceorl, & nimð hire oðerne, wenestu recce he hire æfre ma?
a. 1000. Cædmon’s Crist & Satan, 140 (Gr.). Ne on þa beorhtan ʓescæft Ne mot ic æfre ma eaʓum starian.]
a. 1200. Moral Ode, 106. To deþ idemet, and eure ma [Trin. Coll. MS. afremo] forlorene.
c. 1200. Vices & Virtues (1888), 35. Hie [karitas] scal æure mo ȝelasten, aiðer on ðessere woreld and ec on ðare oðre.
1297. R. Glouc. (1724), 44. Londone he ys now y cleped, and worþ euermo.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 2466. For þo was þe gurdel þat he com fore y-lost for euere-mo.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 174. In a tour, in anguish and in wo, Dwellen this Palamon and eke Arcite, For everemo.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 25. For such a coke I may go fasting evermo.
