eternize

American  

[ih-tur-nahyz] / ɪˈtɜr naɪz /

especially British, eternise

verb (used with object)

eternized, eternizing

1. to make eternal; perpetuate.

2. to immortalize.

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Other Word Forms

• eternization
  noun
• uneternized
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of eternize

From the Medieval Latin word ēternizāre, dating back to 1560–70. See eterne, -ize

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Example Sentences

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eternize eternized eternizing

Not so," quod I; "let baser things devize To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your vertues rare shall eternize, And in the hevens wryte your glorious name.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser

His loss preserv’d him; they that silenc’d wit35 Are now the authors to eternize it.

From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley

Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted ... offered ... especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their country and eternize their names by like bold attempts.

From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

Then there may be titles, and pensions, and marble monuments to eternize the men who have thus become great;—but what becomes of you, and your country, and your children?

From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

What zeal of the senators, or what of the Roman people, by decreeing the most ample honors, can eternize your virtues, O Augustus, by monumental inscriptions and lasting records?

From The Works of Horace by Horace

A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019

Therefore at least admit us liberty, Even as thou hop'st to be eternized By living Asia's mighty emperor.

From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

We do not want to see Cervantes's days of poverty and struggle eternized in statues.

From Castilian Days by John Hay

Is not their memory eternized in one of John Foster's most ponderous pieces of sarcasm?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

And mean time, while this Poeme shall be read, Taylor, thy name shall be eternized.

From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Francis Beaumont

Although more enduring than parchment, tombs, pyramids, and temples, it is as far as they from truly eternizing the memory of what man has fancied and done.

From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss

These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

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