“Sempiternal” (sem-pih-TUR-nul) – from the Latin for “always” + “eternal” – is another way of saying “everlasting.”
Example (as used by Thomas L. Jeffers in Commentary): “… Syon’s orchards are the world as our imagination would like it to be – not wilderness, since orchards are after all planted and cultivated by farmers, but a sempiternal and ideal region of the mind.”
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