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ETERNITY

Volume 8 · 57 words · 1815 Edition

an attribute of God, expressing his infinite or endless duration. See Logic and Metaphysics.

in Mythology, a divinity among the Romans, who had neither temples nor altars. They represented it under the figure of a woman, who held the sun in one hand and the moon in the other: her symbols were a phoenix, globe, and elephant.