| 释义 |
† ayness Obs. Metaph.
[f. ay adv. + -ness.]
Everlastingness; applied as a special term to the ‘second degree of eternity’ possessed by angels and spirits.
1587Golding De Mornay ix. (1617) 141 The measure of such things as haue a fixed and stable being, and yet haue also a certaine succession in their operations, of which sort are the vnderstanding Spirits or Angels; and this is properly called Aynesse. |