eterne
Adjective

eterne

  1. (obsolete) Eternal. [14th-19th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
      The substance is eterne, and bideth so; / Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade, / Doth it consume and into nothing goe [...].
    • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, First Folio 1621, II.2:
      And neuer did the Cyclops hammers fall / On Mars his Armours, forg'd for proofe Eterne, / With lesse remorse then Pyrrhus bleeding sword / Now falles on Priam.
    • Eterne, intense, profuse,—still throwing up
      The golden spray of multitudinous worlds
      In measure to the proclive weight and rush
      Of His inner nature […]



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