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[ noun ] time without end
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 |
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[ noun ] a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife
Synonyms 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 |
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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 |
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