sempiˈternally, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
Everlastingly, eternally.
| 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 27 God is aboue and regneth sempiternally [1570 sempeternally] Whiche shall vs deme at his last Jugement. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. App. 22 The Word and his Spirit sempiternally proceed from God, and are sempiternally in him. a 1693 Urquhart's Rabelais iii. v, That is to be done infinitely and sempiternally. 1879 Escott England xi. (1881) 161 The filthy back-kitchen of the den, sempiternally reeking with the fumes of bad drink and vile tobacco. 1895 Zangwill Master ii. x. 245 It wore a sempiternally festive air. |