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[ noun ] time without end

Synonyms

forever infinity

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

If it was , then it must have been God 's intention to translate him at a certain point from time to eternity .

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

This theory makes it possible for any event throughout eternity to be continuously available at any moment to consciousness .

(Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)

Men were slaughtered every_day , tumbled into eternity like so many torn parcels flung down a portable chute .

Related terms

time alpha_and_omega

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[ noun ] a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity into history .

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

Eternity is no time for recriminations .

Related terms

being

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[ noun ] a seemingly endless time interval (waiting)

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

And yet - a year to a child is an eternity , and in the memory that phase of one 's being - a certain mental landscape - will seem to have endured without beginning and without end .

Related terms

time_interval

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