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eternize

[ih-tur-nahyz] / ɪˈtɜr naɪz /
VERB
immortalize
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The several unexpected victories obtained under your Excellency’s conduct will eternize the same unto all posterity.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted ... offered ... especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their country and eternize their names by like bold attempts.

From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

Many there were who sought to eternize their own Names by honouring his; some by Elegies, and other Devices, amongst the rest one made this Anagram upon his name.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by William Riley Parker

His loss preserv’d him; they that silenc’d wit35 Are now the authors to eternize it.

From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley

What zeal of the senators, or what of the Roman people, by decreeing the most ample honors, can eternize your virtues, O Augustus, by monumental inscriptions and lasting records?

From The Works of Horace by Horace

A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.

From Washington Post Feb. 27, 2019

Thus should heroes be eternized in brass, or granite, or marble, while they are instinct with the glory of action, not when they are aged and fatten and grow bilious and use ear-trumpets.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea

Is not their memory eternized in one of John Foster's most ponderous pieces of sarcasm?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.

From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Let dead names be eternized in dead stone,      But living names by living shafts be known.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

Although more enduring than parchment, tombs, pyramids, and temples, it is as far as they from truly eternizing the memory of what man has fancied and done.

From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss

These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed




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