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Definition of Eonian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era).
2. Adjective. Continuing forever or indefinitely. "The unending bliss of heaven"
Similar to: Lasting, Permanent
Derivative terms: Agelessness, Eon, Eternity, Everlastingness, Perpetuity
Definition of Eonian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an eon ¹
2. Adjective. (context: by extension) everlasting ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eonian
1. everlasting [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eonian
Literary usage of Eonian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Which Way?: A Study of Universalists and Universalism by Lewis Beals Fisher (1921)
"On the other hand, hills are not endless, although the Bible calls them eonian,
because everybody knows that erosive forces are constantly levelling the ..."
2. History of the English People by John Richard Green (1900)
"The cities of Italy and Provence had preserved the municipal institutions of
their eonian past; the German towns had been founded by Henry the Fowler with ..."
3. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"again reconciled ?" I cried " We both believed that we were in the right," laughed
O^SAR up to me. " I knew not that a eonian still existed, and therefore ..."
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