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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

... Henceforth there would be no more monotony, no more measuring of existence by the hands of the clock, no more weighing of emotion by the scruple. The revelation had come. Now and for ever it was all the same; for sensation that knows nothing about time is always sure of eternity. ...

— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair

... countenance of my friend seemed, as he lay beside me, like the face of the Past purified of old errors and calm with great wisdom got through great tribulation, insomuch that betwixt the Hindu and the stars I felt myself to be at once in communication with antiquity and with eternity. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various

... was far away—so far that all eternity would not have been enough to bring them together. And, they ...

— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland

... of the balsam firs into the middle of the road, that the bead might be drawn straight? Did he appreciate that the flash is sooner sped than the missile and know his fate before the rifle-ball crashed into his skull!—or was the instant all inadequate and did he enter eternity ere he was ...

— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock

... most brutal and cowardly murderers, who, when on the gallows, make their last dying speeches without a tremor of the voice, and are swung off, into eternity, with what seems like the calmest fortitude. Hence, it seems clear, that in such low and degraded natures, it cannot be moral courage that sustains them. But if moral courage is not the requisite quality, ...

— Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches - An Autobiography • Edwin Eastman

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