单词 | from everlasting |
释义 | > as lemmasfrom everlasting a. from everlasting: from all eternity (cf. sense A. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb] > from all eternity from everlastinga1475 a1475 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Cambr. Gg.1.16) (1997) iii. liii. 124 Goode Ihesu... Whenne shal I be with þe in thi reaume þat þou haste ordeyned to thi welbyloved fro everlastinge [a1500 Trin. Dublin from euerlastynge; L. ab aeterno]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xcii [xciii]. 2 From that tyme forth hath thy seate bene prepared, thou art from euerlastinge. a1600 R. Hooker in Wks. (1845) I. 625 We are in God through..the love which is born towards us, from everlasting. a1651 N. Culverwell Schisme 165 in Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) A Being that is spann'd by time, cannot reach to what was done from everlasting. 1719 I. Watts Psalms of David 229 From everlasting thou art God To endless years the same. 1818 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Earth 1 O universal Mother, who dost keep From everlasting thy foundations deep! 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 317 Love and beauty have belonged to men from everlasting. a1930 R. Bridges Poet. Wks. (1936) 430 And from everlasting his heart is fixt with affections. 1993 Internat. Jrnl. Philos. Relig. 34 21 Thomas Aquinas..believed that there is nothing incoherent in supposing that the universe is contingent, that it has existed from everlasting, and that God is its Creator. < as lemmas |
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