Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To eternize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make eternal; give endless existence to; eternize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make eternal.
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- verb transitive To make
eternal ; toimmortalize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make famous forever
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Ghalib Academy in New Delhi was established as a ` literary and cultural 'memorial by Hakeem Abdul Hameed, to eternalize memory of Ghalib in 1969.
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The artist's effort is to be the sunset he has seen, to eternalize it in his art, but always so that he and all men may be part of this universal by their common experience of it.
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Some thoughts and feelings, then, eternalize themselves in human speech; most thoughts and feelings do not.
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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Finally it is not possible to believe, without wronging him and accusing him of being the enemy of the Empire, that he wishes to perpetuate sedition and to eternalize the disorders and all the revolutionary movements which are urging the empire toward civil war, and which, through civil war, would plunge it into dissolution.
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Herostratus of old, to eternalize his name Sat the temple of Diana all in a flame; But Jefferson lately of Bonaparte bought, To pickle his fame, a mountain of salt.
Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900
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The peripatetic philosophy, obeying rationalist propensities, has tried to eternalize the common-sense categories by treating them very technically and articulately.
Pragmatism William James 1876
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He says, "Napoleon first solved the enigma of equality and liberty -- his chief aim was the prevention of despotism -- his chief desire, to eternalize the dominion of virtue."
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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Mozart brought the operatic style to perfection in the wonderful compositions that eternalize his fame.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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Directory, at that period, was, by rousing the ancient feelings of enmity between Austria and Prussia, to eternalize the disunion between those two monarchies.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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June 1999, after construction work that seemed to eternalize, the renovated passenger facilities were finally inaugurated.
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rolig commented on the word eternalize
"Saint Laurent's rising star was eternalized in 1983, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted a show to his work, the first ever to a living designer."
– Elaine Ganley, Associated Press, "Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71" (June 2, 2008)
"Eternalize" soulds like a punishment ("externalize"?) or an automobile detailing treatment ("Time to eternalize the car, honey"). The word Ms. Ganley wants is, I believe, immortalize.
June 2, 2008
dontcry commented on the word eternalize
I agree. Eternalize sounds like a word your therapist would assign to your constant references to some childhood trauma. (Or so I would imagine...)
June 2, 2008