eternalize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make eternal
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to make famous for ever; immortalize
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Origin of eternalize
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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
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
Every family had its own, dead or alive, oftener dead, and wanted to eternalize his features.
From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain
Mozart brought the operatic style to perfection in the wonderful compositions that eternalize his fame.
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)
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)
The war-cries of the two opponents, however, became eternalized as factional names in the struggle of Frederick's successors against other foes.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Association, fixed and eternalized by the structure of the language, is the tyranny that keeps down the live idea.
From The Tree of Heaven by Sinclair, May
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
What love desires is the eternalizing of the idea of flesh and blood.
From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper
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)
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)
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