Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Enduring forever; eternal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eternal; everlasting; endless; having no end.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.
- adjective Without beginning or end; eternal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Seemingly
everlasting oreternal . - adjective philosophy
everlasting , that is having infinite temporal duration; as opposed toeternal , outside time and thus lacking temporal duration
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no known beginning and presumably no end
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Although the colonists were expected to enjoy a sempiternal spring, the lack of seasons only reminded them that their world was artificial.
365 tomorrows » Kathy Kachelries : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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You can only be eaten by hungry sharks for so long; but Speaker Pelosi's sempiternal.
Dar Kush Steven Barnes 2010
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Meanwhile the Underground festers and dies at the weekend, as sempiternal and glacially-proceeding 'engineering works' bring it to its umpteenth year of standstill
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Although the colonists were expected to enjoy a sempiternal spring, the lack of seasons only reminded them that their world was artificial.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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[Is truth eternal, or both eternal and sempiternal?], Nowe Tory,
StanisÅaw LeÅniewski Simons, Peter 2007
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My town sometimes smelled bad; it smelled like sharp chemical releases because it was under the plumes of many smokestacks, and there were weird sempiternal creaks, grindings, and groans that issued from the nearby factories.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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Compliance with EU guidelines looks like being a sempiternal difficulty for Microsoft; the company needs to ensure the upcoming Vista operating system, with its wide range of functions, doesn't break antitrust law.
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Nevertheless it may be said that the sempiternal is not bounded by time (in a weaker sense than Plato ascribes to the Forms) in that what exists sempiternally cannot age.
Eternity Helm, Paul 2006
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His writings have also the sempiternal youth of poetry.
Representative Men 2006
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My town sometimes smelled bad; it smelled like sharp chemical releases because it was under the plumes of many smokestacks, and there were weird sempiternal creaks, grindings, and groans that issued from the nearby factories.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
palooka commented on the word sempiternal
dateless: having no known beginning and presumably no end. per wordnet.
March 20, 2007
brtom commented on the word sempiternal
"Empty of everything, in a hum of sempiternal readiness for that soul-wilting, muse-recoiling Jawohl, Herr Kommandant! to shoot up one’s spinal column as quick as a blastula ..." from John Latta's Isola di Rifiuti
August 3, 2007
super-logos commented on the word sempiternal
Semper means "always." This is a word I have heard in Christian prayers.
August 14, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sempiternal
Not from the U.S. Marine Corps?
August 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word sempiternal
Used in the Same Context
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April 4, 2011