单词 | post-eternity |
释义 | > as lemmaspost-eternity post-eternity n. Brit. , U.S. , ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > pre- or post-eternity post-eternitya1631 eternity1656 pre-eternity1678 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 149 Man hath not that, not eternity; but the Image of eternity, that is Immortality, a post-eternity there is in the soule of man. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 194 The promise of eternal life is as ancient as God himself... As it hath an ante-eternity, so it hath a post-eternity. 1706 R. Cudworth Confut. Reason & Philos. Atheism i. 21 Nor will this at all weaken the future Immortality or Post-Eternity of Human Souls. 1985 Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 17 244 Most important of such ‘trees of the spirit’ is the Tree of Love, whose branch is in pre-eternity and whose root in post-eternity. < as lemmas |
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