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supereternal

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From super- +‎ eternal.

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supereternal (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Properly everlasting or eternal; being in a state whose total existence is wholly unaffected by and independent of time itself.
    • 1901, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia[1], Funk & Wagnalls, page 13894:
      The Absolute is above eternity; it is infinitude. Hence there must be a mediating something between the supereternal and the subeternal.
    • 1909, Maurice de Wolfe, History of Mediaeval Philosophy[2], Longmans, page 401:
      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.
    • 1927, International Congress of Philosophy, Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy[3], Longmans, Green, page 599:
      He is the primeval, the eternal, some say the supereternal, and all creatures are merely temporal and passing.