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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And since these are, likewise confess thou must That primal bodies are solid and eterne.
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
Let him enjoy, who has no faith; eterne As earth, this truth!—Abstain, who faith can learn!
From The Poems of Schiller — Second period by Friedrich Schiller
Thou one two, and three eterne on live That raignest aie in three, two and one Uncircumscript, and all maist circonscrive, v.
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Henry Francis Cary
Wide, high, glorious the view Gazing round upon life, While from mount unto mount Hovers the spirit eterne, Life eternal foreboding....
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
And wilt thou pledge me this for time eterne?
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
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