Meanings
adjectivesempiternous (comparative more sempiternous, superlative most sempiternous)
comparative more sempiternous · superlative most sempiternous
- formaleverlasting; endless
These, according to tradition, were originally a race of pestilent sempiternous beldames, who peopled these parts long before the memory of man.
1809, Washington Irving, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker
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