Usually means: Occasionally, now and then, intermittently.
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  1. ever and anon: Merriam-Webster
  2. ever and anon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ever and anon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ever and anon: Wordnik
  5. ever and anon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ever and anon: Wiktionary
  7. Ever and anon, ever and anon: Dictionary.com
  8. Ever and Anon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. ever and anon: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Ever and anon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ever and anon: Idioms

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adverb:  (literary) Synonym of occasionally, now and then.

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