eternally


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e·ter·nal

 (ĭ-tûr′nəl)
adj.
1. Being without beginning or end: belief in an eternal creator.
2.
a. Continuing without interruption; perpetual: earned my eternal gratitude. See Synonyms at continual.
b. Seemingly endless; interminable: eternal waiting at the airport.
n.
1. Something timeless, uninterrupted, or endless: "Shall we speak of universals and eternals?" (Cynthia Ozick).
2. Eternal God. Used with the.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus; see aiw- in Indo-European roots.]

e′ter·nal′i·ty (ē′tər-năl′ĭ-tē), e·ter′nal·ness n.
e·ter′nal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.eternally - for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss
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eternally

adverb
1. forever, always, for keeps, for all time, in perpetuity, evermore, for good and all (informal), till the cows come home (informal), world without end, till the end of time, till Doomsday She will be eternally grateful to her family for their support.
2. continually, constantly, all the time, endlessly, perpetually, incessantly, interminably, unremittingly, everlastingly, twenty-four-seven (informal) She complains eternally about how boring her life is.
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Translations
أَبَدِيًّا
evigtevindeligt
örökérvényűenörökkévaló módon
eilíflega, endalaust; sífellt, látlaust
večno
ebediyensonsuza kadar

eternally

[ɪˈtɜːnəlɪ] ADV
1. (= everlastingly) [exist, live] → eternamente; [damned, joined] → para siempre, eternamente
2. (fig) (= perpetually) [grateful, optimistic, young] → eternamente; [quarrel, criticize] → constantemente
why do you have to be eternally quarrelling?¿por qué os tenéis que estar constantemente or siempre peleando?
he's eternally complainingse pasa la vida quejándose
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eternally

[ɪˈtɜːrnəli] adv (= for ever) → éternellement
to be eternally grateful to sb → être éternellement reconnaissant(e) à qneternal triangle néternel triangle m amoureux
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eternally

advewig; optimistic, cheerfulimmer; damned eternallyauf ewig verdammt; to be eternally grateful (to somebody/for something)(jdm/für etw) ewig dankbar sein
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eternally

[ɪˈtɜːnəlɪ] adveternamente
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eternal

(iˈtəːnl) adjective
1. without end; lasting for ever; unchanging. God is eternal; eternal life.
2. never ceasing. I am tired of your eternal complaints.
eˈternally adverb
eˈternity noun
1. time without end.
2. a seemingly endless time. He waited for an eternity.
3. the state or time after death.
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References in classic literature ?
Toiling eternally They knock the stone, like tireless shuttles plied Upon a sounding loom.
But should it be - that dream eternally Continuing - as dreams have been to me In my young boyhood - should it thus be given,'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven!
THE main purpose of this story is to appeal to the reader's interest in a subject which has been the theme of some of the greatest writers, living and dead -- but which has never been, and can never be, exhausted, because it is a subject eternally interesting to all mankind.
`(Zeus changed Io) in the fair island Abantis, which the gods, who are eternally, used to call Abantis aforetime, but Zeus then called it Euboea after the cow.' (2)
The living whale, in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen at sea in unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out of sight, like a launched line-of-battle ship; and out of that element it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations.
For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty, without a divine marshal.
Mr Pope, however, very luckily found them in the said play, and, laying violent hands on his own property, transferred it back again into his own works; and, for a further punishment, imprisoned the said Moore in the loathsome dungeon of the Dunciad, where his unhappy memory now remains, and eternally will remain, as a proper punishment for such his unjust dealings in the poetical trade.
This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image--an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:--thus did the world once seem to me.
For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
I agree that man is pre-eminently a creative animal, predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering--that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.
He was eternally a pilgrim, haunted by a divine nostalgia, and the demon within him was ruthless.
She measured time by means of sprees, and was eternally swollen and dishevelled.