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 George MacDonald
In memory of John Greenleaf Whittier, September 7, 1892," and this verse: "Some sweet morning, yet in God's Dim aeonian periods, Joyful I shall wake to see Those I love, who rest in Thee.
From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Frederic Rowland Marvin
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
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
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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