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

Etymology

Origin of eternize

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

Example Sentences

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eternize eternized eternizing

Can it be possible that the brush which worthily painted Christ's agony, can be the same that descended to eternize redundant red fishwives, and call them goddesses?

From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton

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

Yet, if his name you'd eternize, And must exalt him to the skies; Without a star this may be done: So Tickell mourn'd his Addison.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by William Ernst Browning

We suppose he wants to eternize his Memory by eating a Breakfast.

From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Maximillian E. Novak

Could you but gain the interested, could you eternize rapacity, and preserve inviolate the blot of the English name, what laurels would not your lordship deserve?

From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

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

They built up, through their wisdom and patriotism, monuments which have eternized their names.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

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

Let dead names be eternized in dead stone,   But living names by living shafts be known.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

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

From Castilian Days by John Hay

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