Deeper Dive: always
always adverb [All + way. The s is an adverbial (orig. a genitive) ending.]
1. At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same.Even in Heaven his [Mammon’s] looks and thoughts. Milton.2. Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; – opposed to sometimes or occasionally.He always rides a black galloway. Bulwer.
-- Webster's unabridged 1913
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