Definition of "eternal" []

• Being without beginning or end; existing outside of time. See Synonyms at infinite. (adjective)
• Continuing without interruption; perpetual. (adjective)
• Forever true or changeless: eternal truths. (adjective)
• Seemingly endless; interminable. See Synonyms at ageless, continual. (adjective)
• Of or relating to spiritual communion with God, especially in the afterlife. (adjective)

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• "The august destiny of his own eternal city [observe -- '_eternal_,' not in virtue of history, but of prophecy, not upon the retrospect and the analogies of any possible experience, but by the necessity of an aboriginal doom], a city that was to be the centre of an empire whose circumference is everywhere, did not depend for any part of its majesty upon the meanness of its enemies; on the contrary, in the very grandeur of those enemies lay, by a rebound of the feelings inevitable to a Roman mind, the paramount grandeur of that awful Republic which had swallowed them all up."
• "When we made that deal, I seem to remember the word eternal being in there, as in: eternal soul."
• "At my school, we say we teach what we call the eternal verities of journalism."