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coeternity

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Joint eternity; equal eternity with another eternal being

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 1714, Bp George Bull, Some Important Points of Primitive Christianity Maintained and Defended (2nd ed.), volume III, discourse IV: “The Consubstantiality and Coeternity of the Son of God with God the Father, Asserted; or some few Animadversions on a Treatise of Mr. Gilbert Clerke, entituled Antenicenismus, so far as the said Author pretends to answer Dr. George Bull’s Defense of the Nicene Faith, &c.”, page 915

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English eternity English coeternity From co- + eternity.