aeonian

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To invest them with aeonian privileges, is in effect, and by its results, to distrust and to insult the Deity.

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

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

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

Being and not being came round in endless succession for all save him, into whom all being was resolved, and out of whom it emerged again, as from the vortex of some aeonian Maelstrom.

From Guide to Stoicism by Stock, St. George William Joseph

With what wings   Would she come forth to greet the aeonian summer?

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by MacDonald, George