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eternality|iːtəˈnælɪtɪ| [f. as prec. + -ity.] The condition or quality of being eternal; eternalness.
a1400Cov. Myst. 288 O! fili Altissimi! clepyd by eternalytè! 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 438/1 Christes satisfaccion also for theternalitie of the payne, and full restitucion to Goddes fauoure. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John viii. 66, I am that I am: sygnifiyng an eternalitie, and a nature that cannot chaunge. 1925A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World (1926) 121 Every scheme for the analysis of nature has to face these two facts, change and endurance. There is yet a third fact to be placed by it, eternality, I will call it. |