Obs. [f. as prec. + -ITY.] Eternal existence, everlasting duration; eternity.

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1596.  Mychelborne, in Grosart’s Sir F. Drake (1881), Introd. 7. Penning forth his story In golden lines of Æviternitie.

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1640.  Reynolds, On the Passions, 1081. Our pursuits of them [knowledge and truth] seem infinite and unlimited, by reason of our own infiniteness and æviternity that way.

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