Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eternal; everlasting; lasting for an indefinitely long time; immortal; not subject to death. Opposite of
mortal . - adjective of or pertaining to an eon.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
eonian .
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- adjective of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era)
- adjective continuing forever or indefinitely
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Examples
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Being and not being came round in endless succession for all save him, into whom all being was resolved, and out of whom it emerged again, as from the vortex of some aeonian
Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock
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His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.
Four Weird Tales Algernon Blackwood 1910
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For we miss to hear the fairy tale of time, the aeonian chant radiant with light and color which the spirit prolongs.
AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901
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The words here simply tell that the one shall go into the aeonian life and the other into aeonian punishment, _i.e. _, that the one shall go into the life of the future age and the other into the punishment of the future age without exactly specifying the duration of either.
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And in Rom.xvi. 25-26 the mystery hid in the (aeonian) times
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But to him who is tortured by such a thought of God and yet feels that Scripture binds him to it, it must surely be some relief to feel that even in this great bulwark text of Everlasting Torment our Lord only asserts that these shall go away into the aeonian punishment or chastisement [3] whatever that may mean.
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Bible of our Lord's day in Hab.iii. 6, where the (aeonian) everlasting mountains were scattered before God, whose ways are (aeonian) everlasting.
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The original word is the adjective _aiônos_ (aionios) (Eng. aeonian), coming from the noun
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That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance -- for its _kind_ is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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'She rides to please her horse now, but she'll have him as quiet as yours before long,' rejoined her son, both a little angry and a little amused at her being called a hoiden who was to him like an angel grown young with aeonian life.
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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