eternal
IPA: ɪtˈɝnʌɫ
noun
- One who lives forever; an immortal.
adjective
- Lasting forever; unending.
- (philosophy) Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.
- (hyperbolic) Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.
- (dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
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Examples of "eternal" in Sentences
- At my school, we say we teach what we call the eternal verities of journalism.
- When we made that deal, I seem to remember the word eternal being in there, as in: eternal soul.
- Although he desired, in some sense, to obtain what he called eternal life, the "joy thereof" had not been kindled in his cold, calculating heart.
- The prophets of such a God take all the glow, all the hope, all the colour, all the worth, out of life on earth, and offer you instead what they call eternal bliss — a pale, tearless hell.
- Yet hold thou still, what world soe'er may roll Naught fear thee, with the Captain of thy soul; In all the eternal world, the cosmic stir, All the eternal is akin to her; She shall survive, and quick'n, and live at last When all, save souls, have perished in the blast.
- The august destiny of his own eternal city [observe -- '_eternal_,' not in virtue of history, but of prophecy, not upon the retrospect and the analogies of any possible experience, but by the necessity of an aboriginal doom], a city that was to be the centre of an empire whose circumference is everywhere, did not depend for any part of its majesty upon the meanness of its enemies; on the contrary, in the very grandeur of those enemies lay, by a rebound of the feelings inevitable to a Roman mind, the paramount grandeur of that awful Republic which had swallowed them all up.
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