everseeing
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛv.əˌsiː.ɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛv.ɚˌsi.ɪŋ/
Adjective
everseeing (comparative more everseeing, superlative most everseeing)
- (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;