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ætern

ætern is the alternative spelling of eterne.

Meaning of eterne

Adjective

eterne (comparative more eterne, superlative most eterne)

  1. (obsolete) Eternal.
    • The substance is eterne, and bideth so; / Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade, / Doth it consume and into nothing goe [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of ætern

comparativemore ætern
superlativemost ætern

Questions about ætern

What is ætern the alternative spelling of?
Ætern is the alternative spelling of eterne.

Words near ætern in the dictionary

  1. æstuated
  2. æstuates
  3. æstuating
  4. æt.
  5. ætat.
  6. ætern
  7. æternal
  8. Æternales
  9. æternall
  10. æternally
  11. æterne

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ætern (page history and authors); eterne (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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