Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Eternal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
etern .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
etern .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The form 'eterne' occurs in Shakespeare only in _Macbeth_, III.ii. 38, and in the 'proof eterne' of the Player's speech.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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My regret is that she, who could be "a vision eterne," should be doomed to receive episodically your considerate affection.
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Verses like "Trivia ride tra le ninfe eterne" ( "Trivia smiles among the eternal nymphs") have always seemed only if he remains the continuer of pseudo-existential enlightenment, the decorator of placid human sentiments, or if he does not penetrate too profoundly into the dialectic of his time, whether from political fear or simple inertia.
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She engendered them in her own fruitful breast, and her "copy is eterne."
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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Longe dauxros ankoraux malluma nokto sur la tero, sed ne eterne gxi dauxros.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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Ili ne volis gxeni la nigre vestitan virinon, kiu sencxese, kvazaux senspirite, la funebrajn cxambrojn trapasxis; de frua mateno gxis malfrua vespero, en pensojn profundigxinta, sxi travagis la logxejon, senripoze kiel la pendolo de l'horlogxo, kvazaux sxi eterne iun aux ion sercxus.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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Frail breath, and spirit eterne, beyond thoughts seeing
One and All 1917
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Italia madre, madre di biade e viti e leggi eterne ed incliti arti a raddolcir la vita salve!
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But in them nature's copy's not eterne, she meant only that they would some day die; or that she felt any surprise when Macbeth replied,
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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Song eterne and praise immortal of the indomitable shore,
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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