sempiternal
Syllables: sem·pi·ter·nalUK/ˌsɛm.pɪˈtɜː.nəl//ˌsɛm.pɪˈtɝ.nəl/
sempiternal adjective: everlasting, eternal.
Adjective
sempiternal (not comparable)
- Everlasting, eternal.
- The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.1841, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay X. Circles.”, in Essays, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 265
- Why not sempiternal / Thou and I? Our vernal / Brightness keeping, / Time outleaping: / Passed the hodiernal!1898, Thomas Hardy, “To Outer Nature”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 151
- Having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether; everlasting.
sempiternal meaning in Urdu
sempiternal in Urdu
- ابدی, پایندہ
Origin of sempiternal
From Old French sempiternel, from Medieval Latin sempiternālis, from Latin sempiternus, a contraction of semperæternus, from semper (“always”) + æternus (“eternal”).
Words that rhyme with sempiternal
- kernel
- external
- internal
- colonel
- diurnal
- infernal
- journal
- eternal
- fraternal
- paternal
- maternal
- hyosternal
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- nocturnal
- supernal
- vernal
- anteroexternal
- anterointernal
- antesternal
- asternal
- chondrosternal
- coeternal
- coracosternal
- costosternal
- coxosternal
- dorsoexternal
- dorsointernal
- episternal
- hesternal
- hodiernal
- infrasternal
- intersternal
- latisternal
- mesosternal
- metasternal
- midsternal
- nonexternal
- noninternal
- parasternal
- peristernal
- posteroexternal
- posterointernal
- poststernal
- presternal
- retrosternal
- sternal
- substernal
- supersternal
- suprasternal
- ternal
- tracheosternal
- transsternal
- vertebrosternal
Questions about sempiternal
- What does sempiternal mean?
- Sempiternal means everlasting, eternal.
- What is sempiternal in Urdu?
- Sempiternal in Urdu is ابدی, پایندہ. See Sempiternal meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is sempiternal?
- Sempiternal is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sempiternal?
- Sempiternal is pronounced /ˌsɛm.pɪˈtɜː.nəl/ (UK).
Words near sempiternal in the dictionary
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