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‖ Ewigkeit, ewigkeit|ˈeːvɪçkaɪt|
[G., = eternity.]
Eternity, infinity; spec. in jocular phr. in(to) the ewigkeit, ‘into thin air’.
[1857C. G. Leland Hans Breitmann's Party (1869) 15 Hans Breitmann gife a barty—Vhere ish dat barty now?{ddd}All goned afay mit de lager beer—Afay in de ewigkeit!] 1877E. S. Dallas Kettner's Book of Table 75 There is more gluttony now in the world..and none the less because we are quiet over it—and pretend to think a great deal more of the ewigkeit. 1900W. Tuckwell Reminisc. Oxford 255 The old monastic Oxford has evaporated into the Ewigkeit. 1924‘L. Brock’ Deductions of Col. Gore viii, The thumb of one of his hands, which had been rubbing the pad of his second finger thoughtfully, flicked the chances of any other supposition's being the right one into the ewigkeit. 1958Observer 18 May 14/2 The sage of Stuttgart [sc. Hegel] should have been viewing last week, selectively, from his anti⁓fireside in the Ewigkeit. 1969‘D. Cory’ Night Hawk 61 We leaped together parachute-less out into the Ewigkeit. |