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/ɪtˈərnəti/ /itˈərnəti/ Listen

noun

Eternity n. (pl. eternities)

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time. "The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity."

Condition which begins at death; immortality. "Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."

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Etymology of 'Eternity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eternity" Quotes from Famous Books

... the crew seem to experience little inconvenience. It appears to me a miracle of miracles that our enormous bulk is not swallowed up at once and forever. We are surely doomed to hover continually upon the brink of Eternity, without taking a final plunge into the abyss. From billows a thousand times more stupendous than any I have ever seen, we glide away with the facility of the arrowy sea-gull; and the colossal waters rear their ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... it was impossible that her voice could reach him through the shouts of the sailors, the lowing and bleating of the cattle—he raised his head and looked in her direction. Their eyes met and were enchained for a moment, which seemed an eternity; then the blood flew to his face, leaving it the next moment paler than before. He swung round to the fat man by his side and clutched ...

— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice

... that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, is my Lord, who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, secured and delivered me from all sins, from death and from the power of the devil; not with silver and gold, but with His holy and precious blood, and with ...

— The Lutherans of New York - Their Story and Their Problems • George Wenner

... Belle-Isle, to accomplish in his company that sad pilgrimage to the tomb of the giant he had so much loved, then to return to his dwelling to obey that secret influence which was conducting him to eternity by a mysterious road. But scarcely had his joyous servants dressed their master, whom they saw with pleasure preparing for a journey which might dissipate his melancholy; scarcely had the comte's gentlest horse been saddled and brought to the door, when the father of Raoul felt his head ...

— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... prisoner; but we paroled him on the spot, and left him to those delicious sentiments which he must have felt in the arms of an elegant young woman, who had saved his life by an effort of love sufficient to endear her to him to all eternity. ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

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