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eterne - definition and meaning
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin aeternus ; see eternal.]
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From Old French eterne , from Latin aeternus .
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The form 'eterne ' occurs in Shakespeare only in _Macbeth_, III.ii. 38, and in the 'proof eterne' of the Player's speech.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
My regret is that she, who could be "a vision eterne ," should be doomed to receive episodically your considerate affection.
The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010
Verses like "Trivia ride tra le ninfe eterne " ( "Trivia smiles among the eternal nymphs") have always seemed only if he remains the continuer of pseudo-existential enlightenment, the decorator of placid human sentiments, or if he does not penetrate too profoundly into the dialectic of his time, whether from political fear or simple inertia.
Salvatore Quasimodo - Nobel Lecture 1959
She engendered them in her own fruitful breast, and her "copy is eterne ."
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
Longe dauxros ankoraux malluma nokto sur la tero, sed ne eterne gxi dauxros.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
Ili ne volis gxeni la nigre vestitan virinon, kiu sencxese, kvazaux senspirite, la funebrajn cxambrojn trapasxis; de frua mateno gxis malfrua vespero, en pensojn profundigxinta, sxi travagis la logxejon, senripoze kiel la pendolo de l'horlogxo, kvazaux sxi eterne iun aux ion sercxus.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
Frail breath, and spirit eterne , beyond thoughts seeing
One and All 1917
Italia madre, madre di biade e viti e leggi eterne ed incliti arti a raddolcir la vita salve!
VIII. On the Lineage of English Literature (I) 1916
But in them nature's copy's not eterne , she meant only that they would some day die; or that she felt any surprise when Macbeth replied,
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
Song eterne and praise immortal of the indomitable shore,
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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