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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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
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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 Mrs. George Horrocks
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
Every family had its own, dead or alive, oftener dead, and wanted to eternalize his features.
From Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland
In the same piece, she said that “racism and prejudice are omnipresent and eternalized in America’s institutions.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2014
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
In Him, who is eternal, is not all existence eternalized?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
The environment becomes thus described as a single, eternal, conscious unity, in which all the actual but transitory values of the actual but transitory life are conserved and eternalized.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
What love desires is the eternalizing of the idea of flesh and blood.
From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
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