aeonian
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To invest them with aeonian privileges, is in effect, and by its results, to distrust and to insult the Deity.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
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 Andrew Lang
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 Henry Baden-Powell
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
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