eternalize

Example Sentences

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According to economist Harold Innis, “stone, clay tablets and parchment are ‘heavy’ media which enable a civilization to anchor itself in the past and eternalize itself.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2015

The thirst of eternity is what is called love among men, and whosoever loves another wishes to eternalize himself in him.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

Every family had its own, dead or alive, oftener dead, and wanted to eternalize his features.

From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain

Some thoughts and feelings, then, eternalize themselves in human speech; most thoughts and feelings do not.

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

That which man seeks in religion, in religious faith, is to save his own individuality, to eternalize it, which he achieves neither by science, nor by art, nor by ethics.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)