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adjective

Eternal adj.

Without beginning or end of existence; always existing. "The eternal God is thy refuge." "To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal."

Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal. "That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory."

Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant. "And fires eternal in thy temple shine."

Existing at all times without change; immutable. "Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed." "What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times?"

Exceedingly great or bad; used as a strong intensive. "Some eternal villain."

The Eternal City, an appellation of Rome.

Synonyms: Everlasting; endless; infinite; ceaseless; perpetual; interminable. See Everlasting.

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Etymology of 'Eternal City'

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"Eternal city" Quotes from Famous Books

... million of years hence, yea, millions of millions of years, your happiness and capacity for enjoying Christ and heaven depend upon the manner of your spending this present vapor called life. When eventually we are ushered through the gates of the Eternal City, it will then be forever too late for this one blood-purchased pleasure of telling ...

— Rosa's Quest - The Way to the Beautiful Land • Anna Potter Wright

... whom they met. He told them that the city was so far away that he had worn out two pairs of iron-soled shoes in coming from thence. The Normans, believing this tale, which was only a stratagem devised by the quick-witted pilgrim, spared the Eternal City, and, reembarking in their ...

— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber

... to follow the mind of George Sand on this Italian journey may safely infer from La Daniella, a novel written after this tour, and the scene of which is laid in Rome and the Campagna, that the author's strongest impression of the Eternal City was one of disillusion. Her hero, a Berrichon artist on his travels, confesses to a feeling of uneasiness and regret rather than of surprise and admiration. The ancient ruins, stupendous in themselves, seemed to her spoilt for effect by their situation in the center ...

— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas

... distilled sweetness upon their lips; prayers filled the place with incense; the Psalms were as the music of heaven in their ears; the gates of glory opened wide for the dying; pain, sorrow, and darkness vanished from the soul, as it went forth from the earthly tabernacle to enter into the Eternal City. ...

— Sketches of the Covenanters • J. C. McFeeters

... land them in the "Eternal City;" and though they enjoyed the drive, still they were eager to have it over, and to find themselves in that place which was once the centre of the world's rule, and continued to be so for so many ages. Their impatience to reach their destination was not, however, excessive, ...

— Among the Brigands • James de Mille

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