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aeonian

[ee-oh-nee-uhn] / iˈoʊ ni ən /




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Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notoriously of very slow growth, and their aeonian period is unusually long as regards the individual.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.

From Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood

For we miss to hear the fairy tale of time, the aeonian chant radiant with light and color which the spirit prolongs.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell

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 Thomas De Quincey

What was meant by the aeonian punishments in the next world?

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey




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