aeviternityn.

Brit.

/ˌiːvᵻˈtəːnᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌivəˈtərnədi/

Forms: 1500s aeviternitie, 1600s euiternitie, 1600s euiternity, 1600s– aeviternity, 1600s– eviternity, 1700s aeuiternity.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin aeviternus , -ity suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin aeviternus (see aeviternal adj.) + -ity suffix, probably after eternity n. Compare post-classical Latin aeviternitas (13th cent. in a British source), Middle French éviternité (1578 in an apparently isolated attestation).

Everlasting duration; eternal existence, everlastingness; eternity.Johnson's definition seems not to be supported by the evidence (see quot. 1755).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun]

echenessc825

everlastingnessa1425

eternity1587

aeviternity1596

eternness1606

eternal1622

aeon1647

aevum1660

forever1741

Ewigkeit1877

1596 T. Mychelborne in C. Fitzgeoffrey Poems (1881) Introd. 7 Penning forth his story In golden lines of Æviternitie.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions 1081 Our pursuits of them [knowledge and truth] seem infinite and unlimited, by reason of our own infiniteness and æviternity that way.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) ii. viii. 130 There shall we..passe our eviternity of blisse in lauding and praising..our Creatour.

1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 329 The notion and difference of three Durations is evident: of Time..of Eternity [explicated] when we treated of God: lastly, of Eviternity in Intelligences.

a1707 T. Doolittle Serm. Eyeing of Eternity (1755) 9 Some Things have a Beginning, and no End..and the Duration by which these are measured in Philosophy, to distinguish it from Time and Eternity, strictly taken is called Æviternity.

?1740 F. Tolson Hermathenæ I. xli. 122 Alluding to the Doctrine of Æviternity, or Succession of Time in the Duration of Eternity, which..the Arians make use of.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Eviternity, duration not infinitely, but indefinitely long.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iii. 33 The questions..whether his [God's] eternity was only an eviternity.

1899 D. W. Howe Puritan Republic Mass. Bay ix. 191 I can not grasp..the difference between eternity, eviternity and time.

a1945 C. Williams Descent into Hell (1949) ix. 238 He..saw..monstrous shapes of cherubim and seraphim exchanging powers, and among them the face of his daughter's æviternity.

1981 Notes & Queries Oct. 459/2 He draws from Boethius's definition a distinction between aeviternity and eternity.

2009 A. J. Springer in H. J. Birx Encycl. Time I. 34/2 Aeviternity [according to Aquinas] has a beginning but has no end.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aeviternity
释义	aeviternityn. Brit. /ˌiːvᵻˈtəːnᵻti/, U.S. /ˌivəˈtərnədi/ Forms: 1500s aeviternitie, 1600s euiternitie, 1600s euiternity, 1600s– aeviternity, 1600s– eviternity, 1700s aeuiternity. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin aeviternus , -ity suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin aeviternus (see aeviternal adj.) + -ity suffix, probably after eternity n. Compare post-classical Latin aeviternitas (13th cent. in a British source), Middle French éviternité (1578 in an apparently isolated attestation). Everlasting duration; eternal existence, everlastingness; eternity.Johnson's definition seems not to be supported by the evidence (see quot. 1755). ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] echenessc825 everlastingnessa1425 eternity1587 aeviternity1596 eternness1606 eternal1622 aeon1647 aevum1660 forever1741 Ewigkeit1877 1596 T. Mychelborne in C. Fitzgeoffrey Poems (1881) Introd. 7 Penning forth his story In golden lines of Æviternitie. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions 1081 Our pursuits of them [knowledge and truth] seem infinite and unlimited, by reason of our own infiniteness and æviternity that way. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) ii. viii. 130 There shall we..passe our eviternity of blisse in lauding and praising..our Creatour. 1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 329 The notion and difference of three Durations is evident: of Time..of Eternity [explicated] when we treated of God: lastly, of Eviternity in Intelligences. a1707 T. Doolittle Serm. Eyeing of Eternity (1755) 9 Some Things have a Beginning, and no End..and the Duration by which these are measured in Philosophy, to distinguish it from Time and Eternity, strictly taken is called Æviternity. ?1740 F. Tolson Hermathenæ I. xli. 122 Alluding to the Doctrine of Æviternity, or Succession of Time in the Duration of Eternity, which..the Arians make use of. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Eviternity, duration not infinitely, but indefinitely long. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iii. 33 The questions..whether his [God's] eternity was only an eviternity. 1899 D. W. Howe Puritan Republic Mass. Bay ix. 191 I can not grasp..the difference between eternity, eviternity and time. a1945 C. Williams Descent into Hell (1949) ix. 238 He..saw..monstrous shapes of cherubim and seraphim exchanging powers, and among them the face of his daughter's æviternity. 1981 Notes & Queries Oct. 459/2 He draws from Boethius's definition a distinction between aeviternity and eternity. 2009 A. J. Springer in H. J. Birx Encycl. Time I. 34/2 Aeviternity [according to Aquinas] has a beginning but has no end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1596
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