sempiternal
IPA: sˈɛmpaɪtˈɝnʌɫ
adjective
- Everlasting, eternal.
- (philosophy) Everlasting, that is, having infinite temporal duration (as opposed to eternal: outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether).
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Examples of "sempiternal" in Sentences
- His writings have also the sempiternal youth of poetry.
- [Is truth eternal, or both eternal and sempiternal?], Nowe Tory,
- You can only be eaten by hungry sharks for so long; but Speaker Pelosi's sempiternal.
- Although the colonists were expected to enjoy a sempiternal spring, the lack of seasons only reminded them that their world was artificial.
- Meanwhile the Underground festers and dies at the weekend, as sempiternal and glacially-proceeding 'engineering works' bring it to its umpteenth year of standstill
- Nevertheless it may be said that the sempiternal is not bounded by time (in a weaker sense than Plato ascribes to the Forms) in that what exists sempiternally cannot age.
- Compliance with EU guidelines looks like being a sempiternal difficulty for Microsoft; the company needs to ensure the upcoming Vista operating system, with its wide range of functions, doesn't break antitrust law.
- My town sometimes smelled bad; it smelled like sharp chemical releases because it was under the plumes of many smokestacks, and there were weird sempiternal creaks, grindings, and groans that issued from the nearby factories.
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