aeonian
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of aeonian
1755–65; < Greek aiṓni ( os ) ( aiṓn aeon + -ios adj. suffix) + -an
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Tennyson, on the other hand, was already finding material for poetry in the world as seen through microscope and telescope, and as developed through "aeonian" processes of evolution.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
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
It might be very painful to renounce a long-cherished anticipation; but the necessity of doing so could not be received as a sufficient reason for adhering to the old unconditional use of the word aeonian.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
Man, again, has a certain aeonian life; possibly ranging somewhere about the period of seventy years assigned in the Psalms.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
To invest them with aeonian privileges, is in effect, and by its results, to distrust and to insult the Deity.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
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