eternalize

American  

[ih-tur-nl-ahyz] / ɪˈtɜr nlˌaɪz /

especially British, eternalise

verb (used with object)

eternalized, eternalizing

1. to eternize.

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eternalize British  

/ ɪˈtɜːnəˌlaɪz, ɪˈtɜːnaɪz /

verb

1. to make eternal

2. to make famous for ever; immortalize

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Other Word Forms

• eternalization
  noun

Etymology

Origin of eternalize

First recorded in 1610–20; eternal + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

eternalize eternalized eternalizing

According to economist Harold Innis, “stone, clay tablets and parchment are ‘heavy’ media which enable a civilization to anchor itself in the past and eternalize itself.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2015

May we not say, perhaps, that the evil man is annihilated because he wished to be annihilated, or that he did not wish strongly enough to eternalize himself because he was evil?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

He says, "Napoleon first solved the enigma of equality and liberty—his chief aim was the prevention of despotism—his chief desire, to eternalize the dominion of virtue."

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George

Our desire is to eternalize ourselves, to persist, and we call good everything that conspires to this end and bad everything that tends to lessen or destroy our consciousness.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

The thirst of eternity is what is called love among men, and whosoever loves another wishes to eternalize himself in him.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

In the same piece, she said that “racism and prejudice are omnipresent and eternalized in America’s institutions.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2014

Her sorrow was real, of course, but the fire lighted by the senses is small and not enduring, and when the occasion arises regret is not eternalized, besides there were others waiting with impatience.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell

In Him, who is eternal, is not all existence eternalized?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

Or perhaps thus: Act as if you were to die to-morrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

Yes, everything deserves to be eternalized, absolutely everything, even evil itself, for that which we call evil would lose its evilness in being eternalized, because it would lose its temporal nature.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

It was easy to imagine Hals set up with his easel here, eternalizing the residents’ animated faces.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021

Imagine bottling the scent of someone you love, eternalizing them forever, allowing you to dive into a fond memory of that person with just one whiff.

From National Geographic ● May 10, 2018

This eternal and eternalizing person who gives meaning—and I will add, a human meaning, for there is none other—to the Universe, is it a substantial something, existing independently of our consciousness, independently of our desire?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

What love desires is the eternalizing of the idea of flesh and blood.

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper

To be, to be for ever, to be without ending! thirst of being, thirst of being more! hunger of God! thirst of love eternalizing and eternal! to be for ever! to be God!

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)