Metaphysics. existing outside all relations of time; not subject to change.
noun
something that is eternal.
the Eternal,God.
Origin of eternal
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English eternale, eterneel, from Old French eternal, eternel, from Late Latin aeternālis, equivalent to aetern(us) (see eterne) + -ālis -al1
1. Eternal,endless,everlasting,perpetual imply lasting or going on without ceasing. That which is eternal is, by its nature, without beginning or end: God, the eternal Father. That which is endless never stops but goes on continuously as if in a circle: an endless succession of years. That which is everlasting will endure through all future time: a promise of everlasting life.Perpeptual implies continuous renewal as far into the future as one can foresee: perpetual strife between nations.
Yet even as the glow from the contests and bikinis faded, their pictures still command attention today, an exuberance of sex and life imbued with the permanence of an eternal flame.
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In another, he warns that the “price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” according to a recording from the Detroit News.
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Hosts are, by their nature, “eternal beginners” — each bidder effectively starts from scratch on a megaproject where there is, in that city, almost no relevant institutional memory for running one.
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He is a storyteller, strategist, and eternal student of marketing and business strategy.
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More beautiful for never having been built, they stand eternal, unfazed by time and undisturbed by dust, remaining eternally lit by the imagination of the wonders that might have been.
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The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.
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He stated—quite rightly—that animals are never mentioned in connection with eternal life in the Bible.
Sorry, Internet: Pope Francis Didn't Open Paradise to Pets|Candida Moss|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 2008 then Pope Benedict XVI stated quite pointedly that animals are “not called to the eternal life.”
Sorry, Internet: Pope Francis Didn't Open Paradise to Pets|Candida Moss|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What had seemed immutable and eternal (“With the Soviet Union forever”) turned out to be a fleeting episode.
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It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.
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The eternal Helen is close to us; she is looking at us, and we are looking at her.
Thais|Anatole France
They seem to follow the sun in its advance and retreat; and to fly on the zephyr wing after an eternal spring.
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. II, No 3, September 1897|Various
I direct these lines to be transmitted to thee—an eternal proof of thy innocence and my guilt.
Calderon The Courtier|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The gods of the strange peoples cringed in the dust before the all-powerful "Eternal."
Jewish History|S. M. Dubnow
With the birth of Ferdinand a new feeling awoke in Adler's stony heart—a feeling of unbounded and eternal love.
More Tales by Polish Authors|Various
British Dictionary definitions for eternal
eternal
/ (ɪˈtɜːnəl) /
adjective
without beginning or end; lasting for evereternal life
(as noun)the eternal
(often capital)denoting or relating to that which is without beginning and end, regarded as an attribute of God
unchanged by time, esp being true or valid for all time; immutableeternal truths
seemingly unceasing; occurring again and againeternal bickering
Derived forms of eternal
eternalityoreternalness, nouneternally, adverb
Word Origin for eternal
C14: from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus; related to Latin aevum age