Eternalist definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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The Sarvâstavâdin are suspected of eternalist tendencies, in that, though committed to universal momentariness, they sought to give all moments some kind of permanent identity apart from their fleeting actuality when present.

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One who holds that matter or the world has existed from eternity. I would ask eternalists what mark is there that they could expect or desire of the novelty of a world, that is not found in this? Bp. Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

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The Sarvâstavâdin are suspected of eternalist tendencies, in that, though committed to universal momentariness, they sought to give all moments some kind of permanent identity apart from their fleeting actuality when present. — Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
For he is in the literal and derivative sense a journalist, while the missionary is an eternalist. — Heretics
Thus he reminds us that the journalist is, in the literal and derivative sense, a _journalist_, while the missionary is an eternalist. — Among Famous Books