aeonian
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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 Andrew Lang
For we miss to hear the fairy tale of time, the aeonian chant radiant with light and color which the spirit prolongs.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
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 Thomas De Quincey
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 George MacDonald
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 Thomas De Quincey
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