sempiternity
IPA: sˈɛmpaɪtˈɝnʌti
noun
- (philosophy, theology) Existence within time but infinitely into the future, as opposed to eternity, understood as existence outside time.
- (literary) Eternity; a seemingly everlasting period of time.
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Examples of "sempiternity" in Sentences
- Truculency, was sempiternity of impeccable lagoon!
- Our present connotes changing time and sempiternity; God's present, abiding, unmoved, and immoveable, connotes eternity.
- Might it be that Hartshorne's influence is greater than initially appears to be the case when the temporality, or the sempiternity, of the God of many analytic philosophers is concerned?)
- While in some places at least Plato connected the necessary character of the Forms, including mathematical objects, to eternity, in Aristotle the connection is between necessity and sempiternity.
- _ It isn't _my_ love that you want; it isn't the little one-grained thing that the Angel of Life takes from out of Heaven's granary and scatters into the human soul; it is the great Everlasting, a sempiternity of love, that _you_ want, Herbert! "
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