† eˈternness Obs. rare.
Also eternesse.
[f. eterne a. + -ness.]
= eternity 1 and 2.
| 1606 Sir G. Goosecappe ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 29 What Eternesse is, The World, and Time, and Generation. 1608 Chapman Trag. Byron Plays 1873 II. 311 What impossible mixtures? vice and vertue, Corruption and eternnesse. |