sempiternal

sempiternal
American 

adjective
Literary.
everlasting; eternal.


sempiternal
British 
adjective
literary  everlasting; eternal

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Other Word Forms
sempiternally adverb
sempiternity noun
Etymology
Origin of sempiternal
1400–50; late Middle English < Late Latin sempitern;lis, equivalent to Latin sempitern ( us ) everlasting semp ( er ) always + -i- -i- + -ternus suffix of temporal adjectives; eterne ) + -;lis -al 1

Example Sentences
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Such disdain is trumped only by the sempiternal public contempt for Congress and car salesmen.

From Economist

The sempiternal nurdles, indestructible, swayed on and under the surface of the sea.

From The Guardian

He wrote: “Isn’t that lovely and tear-drawing? true and tender and sempiternal?”

From Project Gutenberg

I bet the soul of him who's dead and blest, To dwell within this sumptuous monument Has left the seats of sempiternal rest!

From Project Gutenberg

A living shell in which its tenant lay dormant, her subjective will to live alone kept this woman going her sempiternal rounds of monotony.

From Project Gutenberg