aeonian
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of aeonian
1755–65; < Greek aiṓni ( os ) ( aiṓn aeon + -ios adj. suffix) + -an
Example Sentences
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In memory of John Greenleaf Whittier, September 7, 1892," and this verse: "Some sweet morning, yet in God's Dim aeonian periods, Joyful I shall wake to see Those I love, who rest in Thee.
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His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.
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If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?
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With what wings Would she come forth to greet the aeonian summer?
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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.
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