for ever and ever

Into infinite time

For ever and ever is an emphatic form of forever, stressing permanence or eternity.

The phrase appears frequently in religious contexts, especially in prayers and hymns: Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Outside liturgy, it conveys exaggerated duration: I've been waiting for ever and ever.

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perpetual · timeless · unending · infinity · immortal · amen · Lord's Prayer · divine glory · liturgical · endless · ceaselessly · incessant · boundless · in perpetuity · heaven · time immemorial · enduringly · hymn

Opposites
temporal duration

for ever and evertemporarily

For a limited time

briefly · for a moment · momentarily · fleetingly · transiently

continuity/persistence

for ever and evernever

At no point

nevermore · never again · not for long · no more · intermittently

Family

ever, fore, forever, evermore, everlasting, everlastingly, never, whenever, wherever

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G