noun
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One who lives forever; an immortal.
adjective
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Lasting forever; unending.
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Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly
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Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
example
some eternal villain
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Examples of eternal in a Sentence
Some people are very concerned about their eternal destiny.
The young girl wasn't allowed to have a pet dog, but she had an eternal craving for one.
These atoms, which are the seeds of all things, are, however, not eternal but created by God.
Wisdom comes with age, but some would rather have eternal youth.
Reading takes me to eternal bliss where I don't know where the current is going to take me.
Things are temporal, the ideas perpetual, God eternal.
The universe, renewed, was to enjoy eternal happiness.
Eternal love isn't enough?
In ancient inscriptions it often means those souls who are enjoying eternal happiness, or the martyrs.
But it is only at the Last Judgment that his power is wholly annihilated; he is himself delivered up to eternal punishment."
God is the unchanging essence of the movement, and therefore its eternal cause.
To the eternal shame of the Magyar nobles, he was left entirely to his own resources.
On the 10th of September 1870, the French troops having been withdrawn, the Italian army entered Rome, and on the 2nd of July 1871 Victor Emmanuel made his solemn entry into the Eternal City, which then became the capital of Italy.
Slowly, while you hold her hand and lower her into eternal rest.
You.d have my eternal gratitude if you could find a place for Rhyn in the underworld.
I surely may accept their morbid invitation and although seared by the flames of eternal damnation, I'll at least be free from the anguish and heartache of this abominable life.
He dropped his head back and groaned, I am living with an eternal teenager.
For saving our sister's life in the fire, he has our eternal gratitude.
Only in love with spirituality I await to be placed in my eternal abode, Which Allah has promised His servants.
The idea was that men might aspire to a Name (Shem) in the heavens, i.e. aspire to an eternal afterlife there.
Bless and sanctify my soul with heavenly benediction, so that it may become Your holy dwelling and the seat of Your eternal glory.
Countess Mary's soul always strove toward the infinite, the eternal, and the absolute, and could therefore never be at peace.
In God, who is pure form without matter, the archetypes of material things exist as eternal immaterial forms. In this way Gilbert was at once Aristotelian and Platonist.
At the beginning of his reign he concluded an " eternal " peace with the emperor Justinian, who wanted to have his hands free for the conquest of Africa and Sicily.
When Arius asserted the subordination of the Son to the Father, and denied the eternal generation, Athanasius and his party asserted the Homoousia, the cosubstantiality of the Father and the Son.
Consequently, the universal essence of a species of substances is not one and the same eternal essence in all the individuals of a species but only similar, and is not substance as Aristotle calls it in the Metaphysics, inconsistently with his own doctrine of substance, but is a whole number of similar substances, e.g.
The history of Christ is the visible reconciliation between man and the eternal.
Such an intellect, named active or productive, as being the author of the development of reason in man, is the permanent, eternal thought, which is the truth of the cosmic and physical movement.
Such was the Averroist doctrine of the unity of intellect - the eternal and universal nature of true intellectual life.
If the faithful suffer martyrdom, it is in order to serve as an example to others, and they shall be compensated by being raised up " unto an eternal renewal of life."
A residence of some years at Rome, devoted to painting and the study of the antiquities and galleries of the Eternal City, was followed by a visit to Naples and Sicily, and by the publication, at Palermo, of his first work, a poem of no merit.
God exists as an eternal personality, and the creation is an overflowing of the divine love, which was unable to contain itself.
The eternal archetypes have obvious parallels with Platonic ideal forms.
A most free commonwealth of " voters; " but with Eternal Justice to preside over it, Eternal Justice enforced by Almighty Power!
He abrogated caste distinctions, and taught in opposition to ancient writings that every man had the eternal right of searching for divine knowledge and worshipping his Creator.
The righteous as a nation should yet possess the earth, even in this world the faithful community should attain its rights in an eternal Messianic kingdom on earth, or else in temporary blessedness here and eternal blessedness hereafter.
On his return to Canada, when the two provinces were now united, he became a member of the lower house and continued to take part in public life, demanding "the independence of Canada, for the Canadians need never expect justice from England, and to submit to her would be an eternal disgrace."
He was supported by his kinsman Giovanni Visconti, judge of Gallura; but almost all the other great families vowed eternal hatred against him, and proclaimed him a traitor to his party, his country and his kin.
Rohde (in Psyche) they are souls of the dead, which after separation from the body enter upon a higher, eternal existence.
The battle represents the eternal conflict between light and darkness, the alternation of day and night.
In certain theories known as doctrines of emanation, only mental existence is referred to the absolute source, while matter is viewed as eternal and distinct from the divine nature.
The 19th century had no more reverent thinker than Martineau; the awe of the Eternal was the very atmosphere that he breathed, and he looked at man with the compassion of one whose thoughts were full of God.
Maurice, whose character, marked by " religious realism," sought in the past " the witness to eternal truths, the manifestation by time-samples of infinite realities and unchanging relations";4 and Charles Kingsley, " a great teacher," though one " certain to go astray the moment he becomes didactic."
Nowhere is the region of eternal snow reached, and masses of foliage enhance the gentle aspect of the scenery and glorify it in autumn with tints of striking brilliancy.
This word is an eternal incarnation, with its threefold sense - natural, spiritual, celestial.
During the course of the 19th century in Scottish Presbyterianism the affirmation of Christ's atoning death for all men, the denial of eternal punishment, the modification of the doctrine of the inspiration of the Scriptures by acceptance of the results of the Higher Criticism, were all censured as perilous errors.
It was maintained at the bar that the denial of the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity would not be a lawful cause for such rejection, but the judgment only queries whether a denial of the personality of the devil or eternal punishment is consistent with membership of the church.
I believe (that there is) remission of sins in the holy catholic church, communion of saints, resurrection of the flesh unto eternal life.
Lugudunum controlled the trade of its two rivers, and that which passed from northern Gaul to the Mediterranean or vice versa; it had a mint; it was the capital of all northern Gaul, despite its position in the south, and its wealth was such that, when Rome was burnt in Nero's reign, its inhabitants subscribed largely to the relief of the Eternal City.
He reached Persia by way of Moscow, Kazan and Astrakhan, landing at Nizabad in Daghestan after a voyage in the Caspian; from Shemakha in Shirvan he made an expedition to the Baku peninsula, being perhaps the first modern scientist to visit these fields of "eternal fire."