aeonian

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That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George

Man, again, has a certain aeonian life; possibly ranging somewhere about the period of seventy years assigned in the Psalms.

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

It might be very painful to renounce a long-cherished anticipation; but the necessity of doing so could not be received as a sufficient reason for adhering to the old unconditional use of the word aeonian.

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

There was a majesty and peace about her airy domination, which Donal himself would have found difficult, had he known her state, to bring into harmony with her aeonian death.

From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George