aeonian

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Man, again, has a certain aeonian life; possibly ranging somewhere about the period of seventy years assigned in the Psalms.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

Tennyson, on the other hand, was already finding material for poetry in the world as seen through microscope and telescope, and as developed through "aeonian" processes of evolution.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew

It might be very painful to renounce a long-cherished anticipation; but the necessity of doing so could not be received as a sufficient reason for adhering to the old unconditional use of the word aeonian.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

Evil would not be evil, if it had that power of self-subsistence which is imputed to it in supposing its aeonian life to be co-eternal with that which crowns and glorifies the good.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notoriously of very slow growth, and their aeonian period is unusually long as regards the individual.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas