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supereternal en · ADJ

Etymology

From super- + eternal.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, rare) Properly everlasting or eternal; being in a state whose total existence is wholly unaffected by and independent of time itself.
   • He is the primeval, the eternal, some say the supereternal, and all creatures are merely temporal and passing. 1927, International Congress of Philosophy, Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy, Longmans, Green, page 599:
   • Nay, even although the world had no beginning, it would not be coeternal with God. For, God is supereternal (superaeternitas); the pure intelligences, including the intellectus agens, are eternal; the heavenly bodies had a beginning, but will have no end; terrestrial substances alone exist in time. 1909, Maurice de Wolfe, History of Mediaeval Philosophy, Longmans, page 401:
   • The Absolute is above eternity; it is infinitude. Hence there must be a mediating something between the supereternal and the subeternal. 1901, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia, Funk & Wagnalls, page 13894:

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supereternally