Meaning of eternal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Everlasting, eternal.
2. Lasting forever; unending.
3. Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.
4. Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.
   excessive
5. Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
   dated

Equivalents

Examples

“But here again it is another question⟳, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know⟳ whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.”

“Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine⟳.”

“Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die⟳. We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end⟳ of everything.”

“In a bid to understand⟳ the eternal mystery that is woman, Bart goes to the least qualified possible source for advice and counsel: his father, who remarkably seems to have⟳ made it to his mid-30s without quite figuring out much of anything.”

“Beneath him you might have⟳ seen the three of us - myself, sunburnt, young, and vigorous after our open-air tramp; Summerlee, solemn but still critical, behind his eternal pipe; Lord John, as keen as a razor-edge, with his supple, alert figure⟳ leaning upon his rifle, and his eager eyes fixed eagerly upon the speaker.”

“some eternal villain”

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