eternize
English
Etymology
Verb
eternize (third-person singular simple present eternizes, present participle eternizing, simple past and past participle eternized)
- (transitive) To make or render eternal.
- (transitive) To prolong indefinitely.
- (transitive) To immortalize; to make eternally famous.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
- My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […]
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
References
- “eternize” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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