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æterne

æterne is the alternative form 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 æterne

comparativemore æterne
superlativemost æterne

Questions about æterne

What is æterne the alternative form of?
Æterne is the alternative form of eterne.

Words near æterne in the dictionary

  1. ætern
  2. æternal
  3. Æternales
  4. æternall
  5. æternally
  6. æterne
  7. æternitie
  8. æternities
  9. æternity
  10. æthalia
  11. æthalium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æterne (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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