everseeing

English

Etymology

From ever +‎ seeing.

Pronunciation

Adjective

everseeing (comparative more everseeing, superlative most everseeing)

  1. (uncommon) Which sees unceasingly; constantly seeing.
    • 1638, Lewes Roberts, “Of Lepanto, and the trade thereof” (chapter CCXLV), in The Merchants Mappe of Commerce, London:  [] R. O. for Ralph Mabb, →OCLC, page 188:
      Here was alſo Argos built, by that all everſeeing Argos, ſo much celebrated by ancient Poets: []
    • 1833, Margaret Miller Davidson, “To the Deity”, in Washington Irving, editor, Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, published 1841, →OCLC, page 202:
      Oh thou! whose everseeing eye can pierce
      The misty shades of night, and penetrate
      The deep recesses of the human heart;