eterne
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of eterne
1325–75; Middle English < Latin aeternus, contraction of aeviternus, equivalent to aev ( um ) age + -i- -i- + -ternus, extended form of -ernus suffix of temporal adjectives
Example Sentences
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Not to the tuneful Nine, Who sit where purple sunlight longest lingers, Twining the bay, weaving with busy fingers The amaranth eterne and sprays of vine, Do I appeal.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
But if one only can blossom, that one is able to scatter Even a bright living world, filled with creations eterne.
From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller
Progress eterne! thou goest hand in hand With Life eterne, and naught but death e'er dies.
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney
And wilt thou pledge me this for time eterne?
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
By worde eterne whylom was hit shape That fro the fifte cercle, in no manere, Ne mighte a drope of teres doun escape.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
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