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Definition of sempiternal in English: sempiternaladjective ˌsɛmpɪˈtəːn(ə)lˌsɛmpəˈtərnl literary Eternal and unchanging; everlasting. the sempiternal sadness of the industrial background Example sentencesExamples - He knew they constituted the unbreakable and sempiternal circle.
- I get the Bishop Berkeley idea that things only exist when God thinks about them; that God is not sempiternal but only exists when some people think about him is bizarre.
- In another sense, it means that God is sempiternal, namely, a being existing throughout time but whose duration is successive and for whom there is a before and an after.
- There is throughout more than a hint of the Joycean conceit that this process is giratory and sempiternal, even though its temporal vector may be historically irreversible.
- The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and do something without knowing how or why, in short to draw a new circle.
Synonyms enduring, long-lasting, long-lived, lifelong, abiding, continuing, remaining, long-term, surviving, persisting, permanent, deep-rooted, indelible, ingrained
Derivatives adverb literary And the danger is perhaps at its most crucial among the esotericists in that what most see as ‘the real’ is sempiternally displaced on to the symbolic thus running the risk of draining ‘the real’ of its power. Example sentencesExamples - It's indescribably powerful, immeasurably beautiful and sempiternally bleak.
noun literary It is just one of those things that have baffled people for sempiternity. Example sentencesExamples - If you add ‘semper’ to ‘eternity,’ you get sempiternity, the perpetual running resulting from the flowing, tireless now.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French sempiternel or late Latin sempiternalis, from Latin sempiternus, from semper 'always' + aeternus 'eternal'. Definition of sempiternal in US English: sempiternaladjectiveˌsempəˈtərnlˌsɛmpəˈtərnl literary Eternal and unchanging; everlasting. his writings have the sempiternal youth of poetry Example sentencesExamples - He knew they constituted the unbreakable and sempiternal circle.
- I get the Bishop Berkeley idea that things only exist when God thinks about them; that God is not sempiternal but only exists when some people think about him is bizarre.
- In another sense, it means that God is sempiternal, namely, a being existing throughout time but whose duration is successive and for whom there is a before and an after.
- The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and do something without knowing how or why, in short to draw a new circle.
- There is throughout more than a hint of the Joycean conceit that this process is giratory and sempiternal, even though its temporal vector may be historically irreversible.
Synonyms enduring, long-lasting, long-lived, lifelong, abiding, continuing, remaining, long-term, surviving, persisting, permanent, deep-rooted, indelible, ingrained
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French sempiternel or late Latin sempiternalis, from Latin sempiternus, from semper ‘always’ + aeternus ‘eternal’. |