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

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

Some thoughts and feelings, then, eternalize themselves in human speech; most thoughts and feelings do not.

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

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)

That which man seeks in religion, in religious faith, is to save his own individuality, to eternalize it, which he achieves neither by science, nor by art, nor by ethics.

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

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