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  • verb Alternative form of eternalize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make famous forever

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Examples

  • How else does one explain the complacency of the African Union when leaders use unorthodox means to remain in power or tinker with constitutions so as to eternalise themselves in power?

    Changing Face of African Leadership Ajong77 2009

  • I therefore support the call made by his friend and comrade, Madiba, that we, as a thankful nation, eternalise the life and times of Xhamela with an appropriate memorial.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • It only needs the lava of some German Vesuvius (their naval guns are not less terrible than a volcano) to surprise them at their toilet and eternalise their gesture by interrupting it; children will later on be educated by illustrations of Mme Molé about to put the last layer of paint on her face before going to dine with her sister-in-law, or Sosthène de Guermantes finishing painting her false eyebrows.

    Time Regained 2003

  • I therefore support the call made by his friend and comrade, Madiba, that we, as a thankful nation, eternalise the life and times of Xhamela with an appropriate memorial.

    Motion of Condolence for the late Walter Sisulu 2003

  • Their common aim is to suppress the People’s Soviets, to crush the workers and peasants, to introduce again the discipline of the whip in the army, and to eternalise the bondage of the toiling Cossacks.

    Appendix to Chapter XI 1922

  • Degas draws not by the masses, but by the character; -- his subjects are shop-girls, ballet-girls, and washerwomen, but the qualities that endow them with immortality are precisely those which eternalise the virgins and saints of Leonardo da Vinci in the minds of men.

    Confessions of a Young Man 1892

  • Fru Ndi accused Biya of playing tricks to eternalise himself in power.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

  • On the other hand the subject classes strive to eternalise this collective memory by bequeathing it to the successive generations through its own literature, culture, art and folk traditions.

    Countercurrents.org 2009

  • "I would like to continue to be the voice of communities that have no way of reaching out; the platform for events and heroes that might go unnoticed in the years to come and reconstruct and eternalise moments of raw human emotion that give us meaning and purpose," she says.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

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