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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My regret is that she, who could be "a vision eterne," should be doomed to receive episodically your considerate affection.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
Thou one two, and three eterne on live That raignest aie in three, two and one Uncircumscript, and all maist circonscrive, v.
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Henry Francis Cary
It is the headless Banquo—'the blood-boltered Banquo'—that stalks through that shadowy background all unharmed; his Fleance lives, and in him 'Nature's copy is eterne.'
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
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 Geoffrey Chaucer
None would Believe that one among the Spirits, amid The joys unending and the feast eterne, Could mourn, did we not see this wretched throng Cast down in woeful grief.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
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