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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. xii. 5 For a man shal gon in to the hous of his euerlastingnesse [L. in domum æternitatis], and men weilende shul gon aboute in the strete.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. ii. 452 Þe nobilte of heuen..in purenes and euerlastingnes.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 144 Evyrlastyngnesse, eternitas.

c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 91 (MED) Supernatural ioies in þe bodies side ben þese: passing fairnes..euerlestyngnes of lijf.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Perpetuité, euerlastingnesse.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. P4 No lesse Strong then the Heavens for everlastingnesse.

1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 50 A perswasion of the soules everlastingnesse is needfull.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 343 The everlastingness of the wood [Cypress].

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Everlastingness, durable Nature.

1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal ii. 20 He was meditating Christianity..and its everlastingness.

1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 14 He affirmed the everlastingness of future punishment.

1932 A. Huxley in D. H. Lawrence Lett. p. xvi The great work of art and the monument more perennial than brass are, in their very perfection and everlastingness, inhuman.

1975 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Short Hist. Decay iii. 116 The Oriental nations owe their everlastingness to their loyalty to themselves: having failed to ‘develop’, they have not betrayed themselves.

2012 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 2 Dec. We believe in the everlastingness of words.

a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 75 (MED) Þe euerlastyngnes of God is his lengþe; his loue is his breed.

a1500 tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life (Worcester) 52 (MED) God..as he is in his eternalite and euerlastyngnesse!

1564 T. Harding tr. Bp. Hilary of Poitiers in Answere to Iuelles Chalenge v. f. 101^v [Our Lord] hath mengled the nature of his owne fleshe to the nature of his euerlastingnesse vnder the sacrament.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iv. 50 He hath neither beginning nor end, which thing we call Euerlastingnes… And so Gods being is altogether at once, which is the peculiar propertie of euerlastingnes.

1617 R. Middleton Heauenly Progresse 186 The Eternity and Euerlastingnesse of God.

1672 S. Cradock Apostolical Hist. vii. 376 He implicitely testifies, not only the everlastingness of Christ's Person, but of his Priesthood also.

1880 T. K. Cheyne Prophecies of Isaiah I. 242 The idea of the Divine everlastingness is one of the primary notes of the prophecy.

1917 Sunday School Jrnl. Nov. 697/1 The reference to the everlastingness of God's mercy shows a hold on the truth which meant everything.

2000 W. L. Craig in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 201/2 But is divine eternity to be understood as omnitemporality (everlastingness) or as timelessness?

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. iii. 18 To him [sc. Crist] glory and now and in to the day of euerelastingenesse [L. aeternitatis].

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. xii. 3 Thei that shuln be tauȝt men..shuln shyne as shynyng of the firmament, and thei that lernen, or enfourmen, manye to riȝtwijsnesse, as sterris in to euerlastyngnessis [L. aeternitates].

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. ix. sig. F.v^v/2 And that euerlastingnesse verily is perpetual and hath no ende.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 122 There cannot be two everlastingnesses in the torments of hell.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (i. 5) i. 45 This extent of the promise to everlastingnesse.

1898 G. F. Wright in Serm. Internat. Sunday-school Lessons 1899 (Monday Club) ix. 79 The gospel puts significance into the threescore years and ten of our pilgrimages, because they stretch away into everlastingness.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. lvii. 15 The Lord..that dwellith in euerlastyngnesse [L. aeternitatem].

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Esdras viii. 20 Thou that dwellest in euerlastyngnesse.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 1039 1 That life was giuen them before all euerlastingnesse.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 1) 10 That future glory, which was from everlastingnesse prepared for those servants.

1892 J. V. Blake Natural Relig. 135 The moral moment of a man's life here is so great that we can conceive no scope for it but in everlastingness.

a1935 W. Watson Poems (1936) 274 Neither destroyed nor vanquished—none the less 'Stablisht secure in everlastingness.

1993 A. Broadie in A. Broadie tr. R. Kilwardby Time & Imagination ii. Introd. 19 There follows a discussion of the kinds of things, in particular, pure spirits and separated spirits, which can in one respect or another be measured by everlastingness, and then a discussion of the way they are in everlastingness.

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 109 Odyr þingis ȝit þer ar þat vs suld meue to þe warldis despisyng: chawngynge of tyme, schortnes of þis lyfe, sikyr deed, vnsikyr chawnce of deed, stabilnes of euerlastyngnes, vanite of þingis present, trewth of Ioys to cum.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 99 Not sekyng þo þinges þat are þyn,..ner in tyme, ner in euerlastingnes.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxl Thys lyfe tyme is verey shorte and vncerten, therefore must they thinke of an euerlastingnes.

1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iv. v. §3 What a step is it from hence to Everlastingness?

a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 79 If such can barter their Souls for trifles, and sell everlastingness for a moment.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxiiii. sig. T4 [These] all proue it [sc. a soul] a shoot of everlastingnesse.

1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 34 My conscience..felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingness.

1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 91 Visiting with starlike gleams Of everlastingness.

1953 E. Goudge Heart of Family (1954) ix. 141 The earth beneath him seemed to hold his tired body in a hard warm hand of everlastingness that was almost vibrant with power.

2014 Sun (Nigeria) (Nexis) 3 Nov. What the Alakijas have done is not just invaluable but a piece of everlastingness that will outlive their entire generation.