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
His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.
From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon
That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.
From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George
If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
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