eviternal
English
Etymology
From Latin eviternus, aeternus, aeviternitas (“eviternity”) + -al. See eternal.
Adjective
eviternal (not comparable)
- (obsolete) eternal; everlasting
- Joseph Hall, Christ. Moderation.
- What is the heaven itself, but (as Gerson compares it well) as a great clock regularly moving in an equall sway of all the orbs, without difference of poyse, without variation of minutes, in a constant state of eviternall evennesse, both of being and motion.
- Joseph Hall, Christ. Moderation.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eviternal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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