Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteeternal; everlasting
What is the heaven itself, but (as Gerson compares it well) as a great clock regularly moving in an equall sway of all the orbs, without difference of poyse, without variation of minutes, in a constant state of eviternall evennesse, both of being and motion.
1640, Joseph Hall, Christian Moderation1 more example
new souls, just created, requiring a thousand or two of ages to get their eternal sea-legs on, before being able to steadily walk the decks of the eviternal ship of centuries and power, or compete with those who, living now, yet have passed their ordeals long before this civilization had taken root in the mouldy soil of scores that had preceded it.
1874, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Eulis! the History of Love, Part 1: Affectional AlchemySynonyms: eternal
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveeternal; everlasting
Origin
- Latineviternus
- Englisheviternal
From Latin eviternus, aeternus, aeviternitas (“eviternity”) + -al. See eternal.
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