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Eternize

verb
(past & past part. eternized; pres. part. eterniziing)
1.
Cause to continue indefinitely.
2.
Make famous forever.  Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize.





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"Eternize" Quotes from Famous Books



... up great generals. You may have another Wellington, and another Nelson, too; for this country can grow men capable of every enterprise. Then there may be titles, and pensions, and marble monuments to eternize the men who have thus become great;—but what becomes of you, and your country, ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various
... this effect of the sexual instinct there is an other, the increase of the population. Hence it happens that the desire to eternize a given social order is thwarted and defeated by the pressure of this population which in our epoch assumes the characteristic form of the proletariat,—and the social evolution continues its inexorable and inevitable ...
— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri
... strives to eternize thee (Idea xliv. 1). Ensuing ages yet my rhymes shall cherish (ib. xliv. 11). My name shall mount unto eternity (ib. xliv. 14). All that I seek is to ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee
... the policy of General Jackson, as having for its object the "dismembering of Mexico, and restoring slavery to Texas, and of surrounding the South with a girdle of slave states, to eternize the blessings of the peculiar institution, and spread them like a garment of praise over the whole North American Union," he explained the effect of party divisions always operating in the United States, and the character of the several proportions ...
— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy
... such stirring monuments be; full of life and commotion; than hermit obelisks of Luxor, and idle towers of stone; which, useless to the world in themselves, vainly hope to eternize a name, by having it carved, solitary and alone, in their granite. Such monuments are cenotaphs indeed; founded far away from the true body of the fame of the hero; who, if he be truly a hero, must still be linked with the living interests ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville


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