sempiternal

pronunciation

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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 .

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