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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Yet it has but one mother, and bears that mother's own feature, 'Tis thy features it bears,—Nature,—thy features eterne!
From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Schiller, Friedrich
Life's primal source, unchangeable and bright, The old man entereth, the day eterne; And in the young man's eye a flame may burn, But in the old man's eye one seeth light.
From Poems by Hugo, Victor
She engendered them in her own fruitful breast, and her "copy is eterne."
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
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 Cary, Henry Francis
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