Mark 10:17 (Revised Standard Version)William Shakespeare
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Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
The scenes in question—including a fervent and inspired one set in a courtroom—also evoke, as a crucial aspect of trans life, the eternal cinematic conflict of word and image.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
The influence of Buddhism grew sporadically for almost seven centuries in Mongolia, merging in profound ways with its ancient worship of nature — of mountains, water, the eternal blue sky.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
The eternal battle fought over the fate of Hyrule is between Ganon(dorf) and the forces of darkness versus Zelda and the forces of light.
—WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
All saw in nature’s diversity a unity with things deeper, bigger, eternal.
—Carl Safina, TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
According to Lao Tzu, to name something is to limit it, to cut it off from the eternal.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2023
By the end, the witnesses who’ve undergone these experiences are proselytizing, with beatific smiles, for the eternal life of the soul.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
But fame’s pitfalls, heightened by the eternal internet, also are underrated.
—Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2023
Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
But anyone capable of transcending the eternal now of the news cycle and recalling the debates of a decade ago might hear echoes in the Lemoine story of quite another dispute about personhood and language.
—Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
These ancient seas and islands offer some reassuring glimpse of the eternal.
—Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2022
Youth, like hope, seemingly springs eternal at the dawn of a new season.
—New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
But hope springs eternal, maybe more so in baseball than anywhere else.
—John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
More significantly, if life eternal is to know the only true God, as John 17:3 states, is their salvation at stake?
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022
Hope wasn’t given much of a chance to spring eternal on Monday for the Diamondbacks.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2022
Hope springs eternal, though, as the two never confirmed their breakup with an official statement.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
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Word History
Adjective
Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin aeternalis, from Latin aeternus eternal, from aevum age, eternity — more at aye
Adjective
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Noun
1573, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Eternal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eternal. Accessed 1 Dec. 2023.
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