sempiternal
pronunciation
How to pronounce sempiternal in British English: UK [ˌsempɪ'tɜ:nl]
How to pronounce sempiternal in American English: US [ˌsempɪ'tɜnəl]
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- Adjective:
- having no known beginning and presumably no end
Word Origin
- sempiternal (adj.)
- c. 1400, from Old French sempiternel "eternal, everlasting" (13c.) or directly from Late Latin sempiternalis, from Latin sempiternus "everlasting," from semper "always, ever" (see semper-) + aeternus "eternal" (see eternal). Related: Sempiternally.
Example
- 1. The dateless rise and fall of the tides ; time is endless ; sempiternal truth .
- 2. The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves , to be surprised out of our propriety , to lose our sempiternal memory , and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short , to draw a new circle .