Definition of "eterne" [e•terne]

• Archaic Eternal. (adjective)

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• "The form 'eterne' occurs in Shakespeare only in _Macbeth_, III.ii. 38, and in the 'proof eterne' of the Player's speech."
• "My regret is that she, who could be "a vision eterne," should be doomed to receive episodically your considerate affection."
• "Verses like "Trivia ride tra le ninfe eterne" ( "Trivia smiles among the eternal nymphs") have always seemed only if he remains the continuer of pseudo-existential enlightenment, the decorator of placid human sentiments, or if he does not penetrate too profoundly into the dialectic of his time, whether from political fear or simple inertia."