What does sempiternal mean?
Definitions for sempiternal
ˌsɛm pɪˈtɜr nlsem·piter·nal
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Princeton's WordNet
dateless, endless, sempiternaladjective
having no known beginning and presumably no end
"the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth"
Wiktionary
sempiternaladjective
Seemingly everlasting or eternal.
sempiternaladjective
everlasting, that is having infinite temporal duration; as opposed to eternal, outside time and thus lacking temporal duration
Etymology: From sempiternalis, from sempiternus, a contraction of semperaeternus, from semper + aeternus. Possibly via French sempiternel.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sempiternaladjective
Etymology: sempiternel, Fr. sempiternus, from semper and æternus, Latin.
Those, though they suppose the world not to be eternal, a parte ante, are not contented to suppose it to be sempiternal, or eternal a parte post; but will carry up the creation of the world to an immense antiquity. Matthew Hale.
Should we the long depending scale ascend
Of sons and fathers, will it never end?
If ’twill, then must we through the order run,
To some one man whose being ne’er begun;
If that one man was sempiternal, why
Did he, since independant, ever die? Richard Blackmore.
Wikipedia
sempiternal
Eternity, in common parlance, means infinite time that never ends or the quality, condition, or fact of being everlasting or eternal. Classical philosophy, however, defines eternity as what is timeless or exists outside time, whereas sempiternity corresponds to infinite duration.
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sempiternal
Sempiternal refers to something that is everlasting, eternal, or having infinite duration; enduring forever. It is often used to describe abstract concepts such as love, hope, or truth rather than physical objects.
Webster Dictionary
Sempiternaladjective
of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end
Sempiternaladjective
without beginning or end; eternal
Etymology: [L. sempiternus, fr. semper always: cf. F. sempiternel.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sempiternal
sem-pi-tėr′nal, adj. everlasting: endless—also Semp′itern.—v.t. Sempiter′nise, to perpetuate.—n. Sempiter′nity.—adj. Sempiter′nous.—n. Sempiter′num, a durable twilled woollen material. [L. sempiternus—semper, ever, æternus, eternal.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sempiternal in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sempiternal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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