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Etern

Etern \E*tern"\ or Eterne \E*terne"\, a. [OF. eterne, L. aeternus, for aeviturnus, fr. aevum age. See Age, and cf. Eternal.] Eternal. [Poetic]
--Shak.

Built up to eterne significance.
--Mrs. Browning.

Usage examples of "etern".

As man, bird, beast, fish, herb, and greene tree, They feel in times, with vapour etern, God loveth, and to love he will not wern forbid And in this world no living creature Withoute love is worth, or may endure.

That, certes, but if thou my succour be, To sink etern He will my ghost exile.