Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SEM-PI-TERN'AL
SEM-PI-TERN'AL, a. [Fr. sempiternel; L. sempiternus; semper, always, and eternus, eternal.]
- Eternal in futurity; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.
- Eternal; everlasting. Blackmore.
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