Adjective: eterne
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more eterne |
| Superlative | most eterne |
Sample Sentences
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The substance is eterne, and bideth so; / Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade, / Doth it consume and into nothing goe [...]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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And neuer did the Cyclops hammers fall / On Mars his Armours, forg'd for proofe Eterne, / With lesse remorse then Pyrrhus bleeding sword / Now falles on Priam. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:]
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Eterne, intense, profuse,—still throwing up
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The golden spray of multitudinous worlds
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In measure to the proclive weight and rush
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Of His inner nature […] [1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Third Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like eterne
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English eterne, from Old French eterne, from Latin aeternus. See: Latin Adjectives '
aeternus'.