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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Here, manacled with "adamant eterne," in an agony of impatience I quaffed the thirst-stimulating draught of unsatisfied longing as I strove fitfully to wear away the stubborn strips of leather which held me in bondage.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Wherfor I seye, that from eterne if he Hath wist biforn our thought eek as our dede, We have no free chois, as these clerkes rede.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
Soul! is it peace, or truce, or war eterne?
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
Not to the tuneful Nine, Who sit where purple sunlight longest lingers, Twining the bay, weaving with busy fingers The amaranth eterne and sprays of vine, Do I appeal.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
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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