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duration without end in the future; endless time. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15.

Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.

Infinite previous duration. [R.] "The world's preëternity." Cudworth.

To equal. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.

ompleteness. [R.] The allness of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity. R. Turnbull.

time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.

e urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson.

Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful. A dread eternity! how surely mine. Young.

emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity. "His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek." Shak.

An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age. The eons of geological time. Huxley.

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.

Eternal duration, past of future; eternity. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Ps. xc. 2.

During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for. Seek the Lord . . . Seek his face evermore. Ps. cv. 4. And, behold, I am alive for evermore. Rev. i. 18. Which flow from the presence of God for evermore. Tillotson. I evermore did love you, Hermia. Shak.…

Eternity. [Obs.]

issed Than if he never did exist. Swift. To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. South.

Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.

patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity. Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his great idea. Milton.

The state or quality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

Boundless; infinite. [R.] Indefinite and omnipresent God, Inhabiting eternity. W. Thompson (1745).

nfinity. "I am who fill infinitude." Milton. As pleasing to the fancy, as speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding. Addison.