sempiternaladj.
/sɛmpɪˈtəːnəl/ Enduring constantly and continually; everlasting, eternal.
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sempiternal14..
ever-being?a1425
ever-durable?a1425
immarcescible?a1475
perennal?c1500
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incessant1557
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sempervirid1909
14.. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 113 As thou art cyte of god, & sempiternal throne, Here now, blessyd lady, my wofulle mone.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 183 Trawthe is immortalle, immutable, and sempiternalle.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxvii. f. 57v A miraculous acte, and worthie (in deede) of sempiternall remembraunce.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 152 Some writers saye, that they [sc. the Vestals] had nothing els in keeping, but the sempiternall fyre.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 437 Queene Elizabeth of sempiternall renowne.
a1730 Gideon Guthrie (1900) 66 Fearing it might be a sempiternal work to him.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 499 All truth is from the sempiternal source Of Light Divine.
1831 J. Jekyll Let. 18 July in Corr. (1894) ix. 274 Dull dinners..with the sempiternal saddle of mutton.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxiv. 75 Two sources of war are sempiternal.
1884 World 20 Aug. 8/1 We have discovered the elixir of sempiternal juvenility.
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