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- adjective rare Alternative spelling of
eonic .
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Examples
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Perhaps it would be better called aeonic pharisaism.
Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903
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From his first, perhaps best book, "The Immense Journey," he showed a gift for transporting his readers across aeonic expanses—evoking the "croaking gloom of carboniferous swamps" and "the surf on Cretaceous beaches where now the wheat of Kansas rolls."
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Another very positive sign that global rhetoric is being turned down a notch is the decision by the North Korean government to refer to its offshore nuclear tests as "intra-horizontal aqua-aeonic degradation simulations."
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There were nearly as many aeonic hierarchies as there were Gnostic systems, but the most elaborate of these, as far as is known, was that of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Here was evidence of a glacial and a torrid period, separated by an aeonic gulf; but how the remains came to be piled one upon another in this way is a secret of the ancient earth.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Another very positive sign that global rhetoric is being turned down a notch is the decision by the North Korean government to refer to its offshore nuclear tests as "intra-horizontal aqua-aeonic degradation simulations."
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[2728] Harvey remarks, "The Valentinian Saviour being an aggregation of all the aeonic perfections, the images of them were reproduced by the spiritual conception of Achamoth beholding the glory of Soter.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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