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Definition of Eternal rest
1. Noun. Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb). "They had to put their family pet to sleep"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eternal Rest
Literary usage of Eternal rest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Now this rest is an eternal rest in Christ, the eternal Son of God, in whom every
true ... He is the eternal rest, that giveth eternal life to his sheep. ..."
2. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"Now this rest is an eternal rest in Christ, the eternal Son of God, 4 in whom
every true ... He is the eternal rest, that giveth eternal life to his sheep. ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1844)
"... in eternal rest Along his stately bier. How thin his hair! How white his beard!
How »shen-like his hands, * Which never more may turn the glass That on ..."
4. Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers.: To which is Added Porsoniana by Samuel Rogers, Alexander Dyce, William Maltby (1856)
"... A tiii 111 more fix'd, a rapture more divine, Shall gild their passage to
eternal rest."] Grattan's aunt was intimate with Swift's Stella, ..."
5. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"... sectarian conflict :—lest in the eager attempt to close the portals of eternal
rest upon our fellow men, we should haply exclude ourselves for ever. ..."
6. Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers.: To which is Added Porsoniana by Samuel Rogers, Alexander Dyce, William Maltby (1856)
"... A faith more fix'd, a rapture more divine, Shall gild their passage to eternal
rest."] Grattan's aunt was intimate with Swift's Stella, (Mrs. Johnson), ..."
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