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Webster 1913 Edition


Eternalize

E-ter′nal-ize

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Verb.
T.
To make eternal.
Shelton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Eternalize

ETER'NALIZE

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Verb.
T.
To make eternal; to give endless duration to. [We now use eternize.]

Definition 2024


eternalize

eternalize

English

Verb

eternalize (third-person singular simple present eternalizes, present participle eternalizing, simple past and past participle eternalized)

  1. (transitive) To make eternal; to immortalize.
    • 2009 June 7, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Road Home”, in New York Times:
      This occasions a flood of recollected sensory detail, Updike at his best, an eternalizing of the moment of that kiss which stands in defiance of age and decrepitude and the bone cancer winnowing Mamie in the prison of her reduced self.