aeonian

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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

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

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

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

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

Being and not being came round in endless succession for all save him, into whom all being was resolved, and out of whom it emerged again, as from the vortex of some aeonian Maelstrom.

From Guide to Stoicism by Stock, St. George William Joseph