Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being everlasting; endlessness or indefinite length of duration; immortality; enduring permanence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.
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- noun the state or quality of being
everlasting
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- noun the property of lasting forever
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, in the course of philosophical discussion the idea of everlastingness has been further refined, and two contrasting concepts can be denoted by it.
Eternity Helm, Paul 2006
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I achieve the 'everlastingness' of the object by applying the Japanese 'Urushi' varnish.
Dezeen 2009
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Buddha is conscious of Dharmakaya periodically with other Ascended 110 The Twenty-Four Elders eous to build the house of ( "everlastingness"), Sam bhogakaya Masters.
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Eternity as timelessness, and eternity as everlastingness, have been distinguished.
Eternity Helm, Paul 2006
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The loci classici of this discussion, which makes the contrast between everlastingness and eternity clearer, and at the same time establishes what came to be the dominant account of eternity in western philosophy and theology, are to be found in Book XI of the Confessions of Augustine
Eternity Helm, Paul 2006
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The principle of permanency, everlastingness is, in my opinion, the root of evil.
Kangaroo 2004
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O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Eternity [the Principle as distinguished from the property of everlastingness] is that substratum carrying that state in manifestation.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Firstly, that Poem is of everlastingness of length; lastly, that with my rhyme-book, I can now become on to the job of Genius.
Seven Maids of Far Cathay Ed. Bing Ding
madmouth commented on the word everlastingness
"without her teeth she looked decrepit, but there was about her decrepitude a quality of everlastingness."
-Mr. Biswas on Mrs. Tulsi, from Naipaul's House for Mr. Biswas
This one really cracked me up
October 28, 2009
yarb commented on the word everlastingness
Mmm, everlasting decrepitude!
October 28, 2009