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sempiˈternity
[ad. late L. sempiternitās, f. L. sempitern-us: see sempitern a. and -ity.]
Duration without end; perpetuity.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 Or thou wilt commend thy muse to sempiternity, and haue images and statues erected to her after her vnstringed silent interment. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. (1677) 227 A Supposition of a future Sempiternity would produce the same difficulty, without such interposition of the Divine Wisdom and Providence. 1802in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. VI. 261 All concurred in the sempiternity of merit that they were determined to discover in him in all time forthcoming. 1933Mind XLII. 309 Spinoza did not mean by ‘eternity’ either endless future duration or endless past and future duration (‘sempiternity’). 1980Dædalus Spring 255 The fraternal impulse of the heroic youth in the barque unsettles the moral ground of Hell's sempiternity. |