Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin aeternus; see eternal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The form 'eterne' occurs in Shakespeare only in _Macbeth_, III.ii. 38, and in the 'proof eterne' of the Player's speech.”
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
“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.”
“She engendered them in her own fruitful breast, and her "copy is eterne.”
“Longe dauxros ankoraux malluma nokto sur la tero, sed ne eterne gxi dauxros.”
“Ili ne volis gxeni la nigre vestitan virinon, kiu sencxese, kvazaux senspirite, la funebrajn cxambrojn trapasxis; de frua mateno gxis malfrua vespero, en pensojn profundigxinta, sxi travagis la logxejon, senripoze kiel la pendolo de l'horlogxo, kvazaux sxi eterne iun aux ion sercxus.”
“Frail breath, and spirit eterne, beyond thoughts seeing”
“Italia madre, madre di biade e viti e leggi eterne ed incliti arti a raddolcir la vita salve!”
“But in them nature's copy's not eterne, she meant only that they would some day die; or that she felt any surprise when Macbeth replied,”
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
“Song eterne and praise immortal of the indomitable shore,”
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Monovocalics
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