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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The viol vibrates like the wailing of souls that repine; Sweet souls that shrink from chaos vast and etern, The skies like a mosque are beautiful and stern, The sunset drowns within its blood-red brine.
From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles
Sweet souls that shrink from chaos vast and etern, Essay the wreaths of their faded Past to entwine, The sunset drowns within its blood-red brine, Thy thought within me glows like an incense urn.
From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles
Nor you nor I can read the etern decree, To that enigma we can find no key; They talk of you and me behind the veil, But, if that veil be lifted, where are we?
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
Is this a foretaste of earthly bliss, which I have only known by name, or a foreboding of ... etern ...?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
That, certes, but if thou my succour be, To sink etern He will my ghost exile.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
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