eternize
verbEtymology From Middle French éterniser.
1
To make or render eternal.
2
To prolong indefinitely.
3
To immortalize; to make eternally famous.
- at leaſt admit vs libertie, Euen as thou hopſt to be eternized, By liuing Aſias mightie Emperour.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […]1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
- Derived terms
- eternization