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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But in them, Natures Coppie's not eterne Macb.
From Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Fielding, Smollet, Sterne, and all that class of perpetually self-reproductive volumes—Great Nature's Stereotypes—we see them individually perish with less regret, because we know the copies of them to be "eterne."
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
"Thou one, two, and thre, eterne on live, That raignest aie in thre, two, and one, Uncircumscript, and all maist circumscrive."
From Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Yet it has but one mother, and bears that mother's own feature, 'Tis thy features it bears,—Nature,—thy features eterne!
From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller
Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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