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.
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- 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.
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You can only be eaten by hungry sharks for so long; but Speaker Pelosi's sempiternal.
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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.
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[Is truth eternal, or both eternal and sempiternal?], Nowe Tory,
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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.
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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.
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His writings have also the sempiternal youth of poetry.
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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.
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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