aeonian
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Tennyson, on the other hand, was already finding material for poetry in the world as seen through microscope and telescope, and as developed through "aeonian" processes of evolution.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
We are not summoned as to a choice of two different arrangements that may suit different tastes, but to a grave question as to what is the sense and operation of the word aeonian.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
Evil would not be evil, if it had that power of self-subsistence which is imputed to it in supposing its aeonian life to be co-eternal with that which crowns and glorifies the good.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
With what wings Would she come forth to greet the aeonian summer?
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by MacDonald, George
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