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eternize

[ih-tur-nahyz] / ɪˈtɜr naɪz /
VERB
immortalize
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My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name.

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee

The hireling part of the press, notwithstanding, strove to eternize this awful and barbarous system, and thus assisted the minister to cherish the growth of Ignorance.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

Chaucer is himself the great poetical observer of men, who in every age is born to record and eternize its acts.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones

We suppose he wants to eternize his Memory by eating a Breakfast.

From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Maximillian E. Novak

What zeal of the senators, or what of the Roman people, by decreeing the most ample honors, can eternize your virtues, O Augustus, by monumental inscriptions and lasting records?

From The Works of Horace by Horace

A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019

And mean time, while this Poeme shall be read, Taylor, thy name shall be eternized.

From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Francis Beaumont

Thus should heroes be eternized in brass, or granite, or marble, while they are instinct with the glory of action, not when they are aged and fatten and grow bilious and use ear-trumpets.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea

Let dead names be eternized in dead stone,      But living names by living shafts be known.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

Let dead names be eternized in dead stone,   But living names by living shafts be known.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

Although more enduring than parchment, tombs, pyramids, and temples, it is as far as they from truly eternizing the memory of what man has fancied and done.

From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss




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