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aeonian

[ee-oh-nee-uhn] / iˈoʊ ni ən /




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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

We are not summoned as to a choice of two different arrangements that may suit different tastes, but to a grave question as to what is the sense and operation of the word aeonian.

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

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

There was a majesty and peace about her airy domination, which Donal himself would have found difficult, had he known her state, to bring into harmony with her aeonian death.

From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George

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




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