Meanings
- not comparableIn a sempiternal manner; eternally.
Meanwhile, Cripps and Limpet sat in the little sempiternally gas-lit wine-shop, and held an important conversation.
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 81 - not comparablehuman sciencesin an everlasting manner, as to have an infinite temporal duration; as opposed to eternally or timelessly, as to exist outside time
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