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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Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various
None would Believe that one among the Spirits, amid The joys unending and the feast eterne, Could mourn, did we not see this wretched throng Cast down in woeful grief.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
Lo, see his lyre mute and unstrung, Or only grief-notes from it wrung: Lo, his golden locks neglected, And his radiant face dejected; Beauty eterne distain'd, rejected.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
And do not all things Crowd on thy head and heart, And round thee twine, in mystery eterne, Invisible, yet visible?
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred
My regret is that she, who could be "a vision eterne," should be doomed to receive episodically your considerate affection.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack
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