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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Life's primal source, unchangeable and bright, The old man entereth, the day eterne; And in the young man's eye a flame may burn, But in the old man's eye one seeth light.
From Poems by Hugo, Victor
In hevene and helle, in erthe and salte see Is felt thy might, if that I wel descerne; As man, brid, best, fish, herbe and grene tree 10 Thee fele in tymes with vapour eterne.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
And since these are, likewise confess thou must That primal bodies are solid and eterne.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
No, not the olden pleasure shall be there We knew, before the grass sprang o'er your breast; Yet that is yours which here hearts cannot share— Heaven's summer peace eterne and noonday rest.
From Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems by Runciman, Thomas
Let him enjoy, who has no faith; eterne As earth, this truth!—Abstain, who faith can learn!
From The Poems of Schiller — Second period by Schiller, Friedrich
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