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Webster 1913 Edition
Sempiternal
Semˊpi-ter′nal
,Adj.
[L.
sempiternus
, fr. semper
always: cf. F. sempiternel
.] 1.
Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.
Sir M. Hale.
2.
Without beginning or end; eternal.
Blackmore.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sempiternal
SEMPITERN'AL
,Adj.
1. Eternal in futurity; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.
2. Eternal; everlasting.
Definition 2024
sempiternal
sempiternal
English
Adjective
sempiternal (not comparable)
- Everlasting, eternal.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Circles”, in Essays: First Series:
- The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is […] to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.
- 2008 August 2, Shivangi Singh, “A sneak-peek at ‘just friends’ of filmdom!”, in Zee News:
- [I]n filmdom, the sempiternal question continues: Can a male and female actor be just ‘good friends’?
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- (philosophy) Everlasting – that is, having infinite temporal duration – as opposed to eternal, outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether.
Related terms
- sempitern
- sempiternally
- sempiternity
Antonyms
Translations
seemingly everlasting or eternal
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