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Definition of Ever and anon

Ever and anon
Anon A*non", adv. [OE. anoon, anon, anan, lit., in one (moment), fr. AS. on in + [=a]n one. See On and One.] 1. Straightway; at once. [Obs.] The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. --Matt. xiii. 20. 2. Soon; in a little while. As it shall better appear anon. --Stow. 3. At another time; then; again. Sometimes he trots, . . . anon he rears upright. --Shak. Anon right, at once; right off. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Ever and anon, now and then; frequently; often. A pouncet box, which ever and anon He gave his nose. --Shak.

Meaning of Ever and anon from wikipedia

- due to its circularity. It leads to covering the same problems and ground ever and anon for each philosophical generation. It is a philosophia perennis...
- scow towed up the Sound with a load of brick and concrete behind a stuck up parvenu tug. Ever and anon as if to emphasize her newly acquired importance...
- which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again, Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talked...
- Davis and Stephens, Bragg and Joe Johnston, Harris and Polk? It would afford an agreeable variety to the tremendous wholesale fights which ever and anon shake...
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- ever and anon his attempts thus to rally his forces were frustrated by the sight of the fugitives, some in boats, some swimming down the river, and all...
- beneath each one of them; and a hundred geysers, white torrents of boiling water and steam, like inverted waterfalls, are ever and anon rushing up out of the...
- primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the...
- not adorning merely, but peopling the wainscots – at which childhood ever and anon would steal a look, shifting its coverlid (replaced as quickly) to exercise...
- ever and anon his attempts thus to rally his forces were frustrated by the sight of the fugitives, some in boats, some swimming down the river, and all...