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coeternal

American  
[koh-i-tur-nl] / ˌkoʊ ɪˈtɜr nl /

adjective

  1. existing with another eternally.


coeternal British  
/ ˌkəʊɪˈtɜːnəl /

adjective

  1. existing together eternally

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of coeternal

1400–50; late Middle English. See co-, eternal

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This room has been the scene of the happiest hours of my life in which my coeternal companion, incased in the flesh of a real man, plighted his everlasting love and devotion to me.

From Born Again by Alfred Lawson

The spiritual man is that per- fect and unfallen likeness, coexistent and coeternal with God.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

He another, that saith, In the Beginning God made heaven and earth; that is, "in His Word coeternal with Himself, did God make the formless matter of creatures spiritual and corporeal."

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey

Immortal man was and is God's image or idea,         even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immor-         tal man is coexistent and coeternal with that 336:12 Mind.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

He hath a Son, coeternal and coequal with Himself; and the Son is not younger than the Father, nor is the Father older than the Son.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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