| 单词 | eternal truths or verities |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseternal truths or verities 5. Of truths, principles, divine or natural laws, etc.: Valid through all eternity, immutable, unalterable. Esp. in eternal truths or verities, necessary truths, as being valid at all times. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective] > unchangeable unchangeablea1340 immovablec1374 unmovablec1384 immutable1412 unvariablec1425 indeclinable1432 unmutable?a1439 incommutablec1450 irrevocable1490 impermutable1528 irrecoverable1540 inalterable?1541 unreformable1549 inchangeable1583 beyond (also past, without) recall1597 incontrollable1605 invariable1607 unalterable1611 unrecallable1611 untransmutable1611 unreversable1616 involublea1618 irreversible1629 irreducible1633 inconvertible1646 eternal1685 intransmutable1691 unconvertible1700 unvoidable1725 unmodifiable1798 irreformable1812 irrevertible1822 irredeemable1839 true1845 influxible1871 irrevisable1884 intransformable1887 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. ii. 51 The law wherby he [sc. God] worketh, is eternall, and therefore can haue no shew or cullor of mutabilitie.] 1685 J. Dryden Sylvæ Pref. sig. a1 I believe he differs from our Hobbs, who cou'd not but be convinc'd, or at least doubt of some eternal Truths which he has oppos'd. a1688 R. Cudworth (1731) (title) A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xi. 323 Propositions..that are once true, must needs be eternal Verities. 1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) iv. xi. 366 Propositions are therefore call'd Eternal Truths, not because they are Eternal Propositions actually formed... But because being once made..they will, whenever they can be supposed to be made again at any time..alway actually be true. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 64 It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men [etc.]. 1847 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Wks. (1906) I. 381 It was the nature of things, the eternal law of man..which baulked and ruined him. 1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 84 To exhibit some of the eternal elements of tragedy still in operation among us. 1883 F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic II. ii. i. 289 No vehicle conveys the eternal verities half so well as does the labyrinth of a fantastic genealogy. 1900 B. Russell Crit. Expos. Philos. Leibniz ii. 18 The eternal truths, he says, are all hypothetical. 1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You xxvi. 301 ‘Do you think it's right to give up your principles for somebody you're in love with?’ ‘I say, we are getting down to the eternal verities, aren't we?’ < as lemmas |
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