never vs always
Definitions
adverb
- not at all; certainly not; not in any circumstances
- not ever; at no time in the past or future
Examples
I never believed in God, not even between the ages of six and ten, when I was an agnostic.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
Definitions
adverb
- at all times; all the time and on every occasion
- without interruption
- at any time or in any event
- without variation or change, in every case
- forever; throughout all time
Examples
There will always be debate about who deserves honours, all of it highly subjective.
Such football titbits always float to the surface on third-round day which remains the best, most hectic, interesting and fun day of the season - and this one was even more frenetic than usual.
I was always a bit arty-crafty.
