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Eternal   /ɪtˈərnəl/  /itˈərnəl/   Listen
adjective
Eternal  adj.  
1.
Without beginning or end of existence; always existing. "The eternal God is thy refuge." "To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal."
2.
Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal. "That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory."
3.
Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant. "And fires eternal in thy temple shine."
4.
Existing at all times without change; immutable. "Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed." "What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times?"
5.
Exceedingly great or bad; used as a strong intensive. "Some eternal villain."
The Eternal City, an appellation of Rome.
Synonyms: Everlasting; endless; infinite; ceaseless; perpetual; interminable. See Everlasting.


noun
Eternal  n.  
1.
One of the appellations of God. "Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work."
2.
That which is endless and immortal.





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"Eternal" Quotes from Famous Books



... must grow and not diminish, in its larger and freer exercise. Whom did I see at that first suffrage meeting, first in my experience? Lucy Stone, sweet faced and silver voiced, the very embodiment of Goethe's "eternal feminine"; William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, noble advocates of human freedom; Lucretia Mott, eloquent and beautiful in her holy old age. What did I hear? Doctrine which harmonized with my dearest aspirations, extending ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
... to be forever robed in the dreamless draperies of eternal oblivion, rather than have eternal life, with all its torments—mingling with the legions of the past, and with mother earth—the dust of success and happiness indistinguishable from the dust of failure and despair. Time alone would be his ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... towards this test an extremely rich and daily increasing material, whereby it has demonstrated that, in the last instance, nature proceeds upon dialectical, not upon metaphysical methods, that it does not move upon the eternal sameness of a perpetually recurring circle, but that it goes through ...
— Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy • Frederick Engels
... "that country where the joys are visible but false, and the sorrows hidden, but real," he had before him the brilliant Palace of Versailles, the unrivalled glory of the Sun King, a monarchy which thought itself immovable and eternal. What would he say in this century when dynasties fail like autumn leaves, and it takes much less than thirty years to destroy the giants of power; when the exile of to-day repeats to the exile of the morrow the motto of the churchyard: ...
— The Court of the Empress Josephine • Imbert de Saint-Amand
... had promised himself that he would make of the terrible power bought at the price of his eternal happiness, was the full and complete indulgence of all ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne


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