aeonian
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of aeonian
1755–65; < Greek aiṓni ( os ) ( aiṓn aeon + -ios adj. suffix) + -an
Vocabulary lists containing aeonian
Example Sentences
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That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.
From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald
Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notoriously of very slow growth, and their aeonian period is unusually long as regards the individual.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
Being and not being came round in endless succession for all save him, into whom all being was resolved, and out of whom it emerged again, as from the vortex of some aeonian Maelstrom.
From Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?
From Creation and Its Records by Baden Henry Baden-Powell
What was meant by the aeonian punishments in the next world?
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
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