eternityn.

/iːˈtəːnɪti/

Forms: Middle English eternite, Middle English eternyte(e, 1500s eternitie, 1500s–1600s æternitie, æternity, 1500s– eternity.

Etymology: Middle English eternite , < French eternité, < Latin aeternitāt-em , < aeternus : see eterne adj. Compare Provençal eternitat, Spanish eternidad, Italian eternità.

a. The quality, condition, or fact of being eternal (see the adjective); eternalness; eternal existence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > eternity

eternityc1374

everlastingtya1382

everlastingnessa1425

infinity1532

infiniteness1534

eternality1548

ayness1587

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. vi. 171 God is eterne..lat vs considere þan what is eternite.

14.. Inholders in York Plays 515 Euer withoutyn ende With the to reyne in thyne eternyte.

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) Introd. 8 To magnyfye God in hys blysful eternyte.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India Pref. 8 Giving them knowledge of the eternitie, and holy trinitie in unitie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iv. 24 He wants nothing of a God but Eternity .

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 15 God injoyes himself only by Contemplation of his Goodness, Eternity, Infiniteness and Power.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 246 There should always have been a preexisting Matter, to establish his Opinion concerning Eternity.

1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton xvi. 285 An argument..to prove the eternity of the world.

b. hyperbolically. Perpetual or indefinite continuance; esp. ‘immortality’ of fame.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [noun] > immortal fame

eternityc1420

immortality1535

eternizement1595

immortalization1897

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 476 Thus maketh thai of thaire fertilitee In helping nature a feire eternytee.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 208 A desire he had..of æternity and perpetuall fame.

1611 T. Coryate tr. H. Kirchner Oration in Crudities sig. C Hercules..purchased himselfe eternity of name.

1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) i. sig. B3 Here are my Sonnes.—There's my eternitie. My life in them; And their succession shall for euer liue.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 28 b The Vine exceeds even the Eternity of Time itself.

1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) xi. 277 That eternity is brief which hangs upon the sentiments of any multitude.

c. as a title: cf. ‘Your Majesty, Grace’, etc.

ΚΠ

1791 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. I. 314 Their [sc. Eastern Emperors'] subjects address them by the titles of—‘Your Perpetuity—your Eternity’.

d. the eternities: (in vaguely concrete sense) things eternal; the eternal truths or realities. Frequent in Carlyle, and often cited (sometimes derisively) as characteristic of his style.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternal thing(s) or truth(s)

eternals1649

timeless1825

the eternities1843

imperishable1849

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xv. 315 Truly, if a man cannot get some glimpse into the Eternities, looking through this portal,—through what other need he try it?

1878 J. Morley Carlyle 165 We begin with introspection and the eternities, and end in blood and iron.

2. Infinite time. The total eternity, which has neither beginning nor end, may be regarded as divided by any moment into two eternities: the past eternity (in scholastic language æternitas a parte ante), and the future eternity (æternitas a parte post). Hence the applications of the word in this sense may be classed as follows:

a. Absolute eternity, having neither beginning nor end.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun]

echenessc825

everlastingnessa1425

eternity1587

aeviternity1596

eternness1606

eternal1622

aeon1647

aevum1660

forever1741

Ewigkeit1877

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. i. 6 The eternitie hath not any thing either afore or after it.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 148 Those thoughts that wander through Eternity .

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxiv. 480 ‘Eternity’, is a negative idea, clothed with a positive name.

1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith iii. 132 Infinite time is called eternity.

b. The two ‘eternities’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > pre- or post-eternity

post-eternitya1631

eternity1656

pre-eternity1678

1656 A. Cowley Muse in Pindaric Odes Notes 25 There are two sorts of Eternity; from the Present backwards to Eternity, and from the Present forwards.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 119 The Ancient Atheists..did at once deny both Eternities to the World; Past and Future.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxii. 62 The soul awakes..between two dim eternities,—the eternal past, the eternal future.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 63 The introduction of the first man into the world..was a dividing line between the eternities.

c. The past eternity.

ΚΠ

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 148 ‘Natural’ are those which have been Lawes from all Eternity.

1812 Cogan Theol. Disquisitions i. i. (R.) A first cause; who, being uncaused, must exist from eternity.

d. The future eternity; time without end.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternalness

eternityc1374

incorruptibleness1398

eternalitya1400

perpetualty1435

perpetuity1455

incorruptibilitya1475

perdurance1508

perpetuality1543

perennity1597

sempiternity1599

eternness1606

perpetualness1611

indefectibility1624

alwayness1674

eternalness1727

indefeatabilitya1754

imperishability1813

imperishableness1818

timelessness1836

unfadingness1860

unendingness1881

eternalism1889

agelessness1893

achronism1902

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. vii. 58 Þou wilt maken comparisoun to þe endeles space of eternite.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 556 Beyond [time] is all abyss, Eternitie, whose end no eye can reach.

1713 J. Addison Cato v. i Eternity, thou pleasing, dreadful thought..Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 149 They with their Leader, thro' eternity, Must howl in central fires.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vi. 33 Slowly numbers o'er The mighty cycles of eternity.

3. Hyperbolical uses of 2: A space of time felt as ‘endless’; a term indefinitely remote.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time

seven daysOE

a while1297

dreichc1440

dreightc1450

yearsa1470

age1577

week1597

montha1616

patriarch's age1693

length1697

eternity1700

a month of Sundays1759

a week of Sundays1822

a week of Saturdays1831

dog's age1833

forever1833

while1836

aeon1880

donkey's years1916

light year1929

yonks1968

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 3 Those Grey Kentish Bricks..will last to Eternity.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 89 With such absolute firmness, as if it had been design'd for Eternity.

1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (ed. 3) 11 Tho' in Time's record nearly nought, It was Eternity to Thought.

a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) ix. 354 A few more worlds..to which the destroying flood does not reach, save once or twice in an eternity or so.

4. In expressed or implied opposition to time.

a. In metaphysical sense (cf. eternal adj. 1b): Timelessness; existence with reference to which the relation of succession has no application.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternalness > unchanging existence

eternity1662

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > immutability

immutability1593

immutableness1610

eternity1853

1662 T. Hobbes Mr Hobbes Considered 50 Eternity is a permanent Now.

1853 F. D. Maurice Theol. Ess. (ed. 2) 450 Eternity, in relation to God, has nothing to do with time or duration.

b. Opposed to ‘time’ in its restricted sense of duration measured by the succession of physical phenomena. Hence, the condition into which the soul enters at death; the future life. Also, eternal welfare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > reward of > eternal life

another lifeOE

eternity1604

hence1884

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 73 All that liues must die, Passing through nature to eternitie .

1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 33 Weake Time shall be pour'd out Into Eternity.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xciv Most grave..Citizens, are put to it by a promissory Oath to stake their Eternities, and in effect to invocate God.

1785 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 658/2 Just as they were going to be launched into eternity.

5. nonce-uses. Viewed imaginatively as an agent or a person.

ΚΠ

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xliv. ix I [Time] am the lode-starre to dame Eternitie.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxxi. 38 It comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track.

6. In plural (cf. 1d, 2b): Eternity viewed as consisting of ‘ages’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > viewed as consisting of ages

eternities1382

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Pref. Epist. Jerome iv. 64 Thoo that techen many men to rightwisnes [shulen shyne] as sterres into perpetuel eternytees [a1425 L.V. euerlastyngnessis].

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Dan. xii. 3 They that instruct many to justice [shal shine] as starres unto perpetual eternities.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh v. 201 Like a clock Which strikes the hours of the eternities.

1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. i. 256 To unfold through the ages, yea, through the eternities.

1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 247 The throne of heaven is to them a lonely one. The solitude of the eternities weighs upon their imaginations.

Compounds

eternity ring n. (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > other types of ring

kine-ringc1225

pontificala1500

hoop-ring1545

death's head1577

ring of remembrance1659

serjeant's ring1690

garter-ring1709

bath-ring1771

solitaire1832

regard ring1853

key ring1856

bodylet1870

portrait ring1877

tower-ring1877

whistle-ring1877

marquise1885

princess-ring1886

dinner ring1890

cluster ring1897

eternity ring1939

1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 449/1 Diamond and Platinum Eternity Ring from £10 10 0.

1950 ‘P. Wentworth’ Eternity Ring iv. 30 ‘You know the kind of ring they call an eternity ring?’ She smiled. ‘An old fashion which has come back—a circle of small stones set continuously.’

1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 112/1 Eternity ring, a ring in the form of a plain circle symbolising eternity, often set with a single row of stones.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	eternity
释义	eternityn. /iːˈtəːnɪti/ Forms: Middle English eternite, Middle English eternyte(e, 1500s eternitie, 1500s–1600s æternitie, æternity, 1500s– eternity. Etymology: Middle English eternite , < French eternité, < Latin aeternitāt-em , < aeternus : see eterne adj. Compare Provençal eternitat, Spanish eternidad, Italian eternità. 1. a. The quality, condition, or fact of being eternal (see the adjective); eternalness; eternal existence. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > eternity eternityc1374 everlastingtya1382 everlastingnessa1425 infinity1532 infiniteness1534 eternality1548 ayness1587 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. vi. 171 God is eterne..lat vs considere þan what is eternite. 14.. Inholders in York Plays 515 Euer withoutyn ende With the to reyne in thyne eternyte. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) Introd. 8 To magnyfye God in hys blysful eternyte. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India Pref. 8 Giving them knowledge of the eternitie, and holy trinitie in unitie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iv. 24 He wants nothing of a God but Eternity . View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 15 God injoyes himself only by Contemplation of his Goodness, Eternity, Infiniteness and Power. View more context for this quotation 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 246 There should always have been a preexisting Matter, to establish his Opinion concerning Eternity. 1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton xvi. 285 An argument..to prove the eternity of the world. b. hyperbolically. Perpetual or indefinite continuance; esp. ‘immortality’ of fame. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [noun] > immortal fame eternityc1420 immortality1535 eternizement1595 immortalization1897 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 476 Thus maketh thai of thaire fertilitee In helping nature a feire eternytee. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 208 A desire he had..of æternity and perpetuall fame. 1611 T. Coryate tr. H. Kirchner Oration in Crudities sig. C Hercules..purchased himselfe eternity of name. 1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) i. sig. B3 Here are my Sonnes.—There's my eternitie. My life in them; And their succession shall for euer liue. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 28 b The Vine exceeds even the Eternity of Time itself. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) xi. 277 That eternity is brief which hangs upon the sentiments of any multitude. c. as a title: cf. ‘Your Majesty, Grace’, etc. ΚΠ 1791 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. I. 314 Their [sc. Eastern Emperors'] subjects address them by the titles of—‘Your Perpetuity—your Eternity’. d. the eternities: (in vaguely concrete sense) things eternal; the eternal truths or realities. Frequent in Carlyle, and often cited (sometimes derisively) as characteristic of his style. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternal thing(s) or truth(s) eternals1649 timeless1825 the eternities1843 imperishable1849 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xv. 315 Truly, if a man cannot get some glimpse into the Eternities, looking through this portal,—through what other need he try it? 1878 J. Morley Carlyle 165 We begin with introspection and the eternities, and end in blood and iron. 2. Infinite time. The total eternity, which has neither beginning nor end, may be regarded as divided by any moment into two eternities: the past eternity (in scholastic language æternitas a parte ante), and the future eternity (æternitas a parte post). Hence the applications of the word in this sense may be classed as follows: a. Absolute eternity, having neither beginning nor end. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] echenessc825 everlastingnessa1425 eternity1587 aeviternity1596 eternness1606 eternal1622 aeon1647 aevum1660 forever1741 Ewigkeit1877 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. i. 6 The eternitie hath not any thing either afore or after it. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 148 Those thoughts that wander through Eternity . View more context for this quotation 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxiv. 480 ‘Eternity’, is a negative idea, clothed with a positive name. 1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith iii. 132 Infinite time is called eternity. b. The two ‘eternities’. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > pre- or post-eternity post-eternitya1631 eternity1656 pre-eternity1678 1656 A. Cowley Muse in Pindaric Odes Notes 25 There are two sorts of Eternity; from the Present backwards to Eternity, and from the Present forwards. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 119 The Ancient Atheists..did at once deny both Eternities to the World; Past and Future. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxii. 62 The soul awakes..between two dim eternities,—the eternal past, the eternal future. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 63 The introduction of the first man into the world..was a dividing line between the eternities. c. The past eternity. ΚΠ 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 148 ‘Natural’ are those which have been Lawes from all Eternity. 1812 Cogan Theol. Disquisitions i. i. (R.) A first cause; who, being uncaused, must exist from eternity. d. The future eternity; time without end. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternalness eternityc1374 incorruptibleness1398 eternalitya1400 perpetualty1435 perpetuity1455 incorruptibilitya1475 perdurance1508 perpetuality1543 perennity1597 sempiternity1599 eternness1606 perpetualness1611 indefectibility1624 alwayness1674 eternalness1727 indefeatabilitya1754 imperishability1813 imperishableness1818 timelessness1836 unfadingness1860 unendingness1881 eternalism1889 agelessness1893 achronism1902 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. vii. 58 Þou wilt maken comparisoun to þe endeles space of eternite. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 556 Beyond [time] is all abyss, Eternitie, whose end no eye can reach. View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Addison Cato v. i Eternity, thou pleasing, dreadful thought..Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 149 They with their Leader, thro' eternity, Must howl in central fires. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vi. 33 Slowly numbers o'er The mighty cycles of eternity. 3. Hyperbolical uses of 2: A space of time felt as ‘endless’; a term indefinitely remote. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time seven daysOE a while1297 dreichc1440 dreightc1450 yearsa1470 age1577 week1597 montha1616 patriarch's age1693 length1697 eternity1700 a month of Sundays1759 a week of Sundays1822 a week of Saturdays1831 dog's age1833 forever1833 while1836 aeon1880 donkey's years1916 light year1929 yonks1968 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 3 Those Grey Kentish Bricks..will last to Eternity. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 89 With such absolute firmness, as if it had been design'd for Eternity. 1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (ed. 3) 11 Tho' in Time's record nearly nought, It was Eternity to Thought. a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) ix. 354 A few more worlds..to which the destroying flood does not reach, save once or twice in an eternity or so. 4. In expressed or implied opposition to time. a. In metaphysical sense (cf. eternal adj. 1b): Timelessness; existence with reference to which the relation of succession has no application. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternalness > unchanging existence eternity1662 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > immutability immutability1593 immutableness1610 eternity1853 1662 T. Hobbes Mr Hobbes Considered 50 Eternity is a permanent Now. 1853 F. D. Maurice Theol. Ess. (ed. 2) 450 Eternity, in relation to God, has nothing to do with time or duration. b. Opposed to ‘time’ in its restricted sense of duration measured by the succession of physical phenomena. Hence, the condition into which the soul enters at death; the future life. Also, eternal welfare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > reward of > eternal life another lifeOE eternity1604 hence1884 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 73 All that liues must die, Passing through nature to eternitie . View more context for this quotation 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 33 Weake Time shall be pour'd out Into Eternity. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xciv Most grave..Citizens, are put to it by a promissory Oath to stake their Eternities, and in effect to invocate God. 1785 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 658/2 Just as they were going to be launched into eternity. 5. nonce-uses. Viewed imaginatively as an agent or a person. ΚΠ 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xliv. ix I [Time] am the lode-starre to dame Eternitie. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxxi. 38 It comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track. 6. In plural (cf. 1d, 2b): Eternity viewed as consisting of ‘ages’. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > viewed as consisting of ages eternities1382 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Pref. Epist. Jerome iv. 64 Thoo that techen many men to rightwisnes [shulen shyne] as sterres into perpetuel eternytees [a1425 L.V. euerlastyngnessis]. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Dan. xii. 3 They that instruct many to justice [shal shine] as starres unto perpetual eternities. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh v. 201 Like a clock Which strikes the hours of the eternities. 1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. i. 256 To unfold through the ages, yea, through the eternities. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 247 The throne of heaven is to them a lonely one. The solitude of the eternities weighs upon their imaginations. Compounds eternity ring n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > other types of ring kine-ringc1225 pontificala1500 hoop-ring1545 death's head1577 ring of remembrance1659 serjeant's ring1690 garter-ring1709 bath-ring1771 solitaire1832 regard ring1853 key ring1856 bodylet1870 portrait ring1877 tower-ring1877 whistle-ring1877 marquise1885 princess-ring1886 dinner ring1890 cluster ring1897 eternity ring1939 1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 449/1 Diamond and Platinum Eternity Ring from £10 10 0. 1950 ‘P. Wentworth’ Eternity Ring iv. 30 ‘You know the kind of ring they call an eternity ring?’ She smiled. ‘An old fashion which has come back—a circle of small stones set continuously.’ 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 112/1 Eternity ring, a ring in the form of a plain circle symbolising eternity, often set with a single row of stones. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1374
随便看	θ18248 θ182480 θ182481 θ182482 θ182483 θ182484 θ182485 θ182486 θ182487 θ182488 θ182489 θ18249 θ182490 θ182491 θ182492 θ182493 θ182494 θ16872 θ168720 θ168721 θ168722 θ168723 θ168724 θ168725 θ168726