| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations | | Section VI. Time | | 1. Absolute Time |
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| 112. [Endless Duration.] Perpetuity. |
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| NOUN: | PERPETUITY, eternity, everness, 1 aye, sempiternity, perenniality [rare], coeternity, immortality, athanasy, athanasia; everlastingness &c. adj.; perpetuation; continued existence, uninterrupted existence; perennity [obs.].
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| VERB: | HAVE NO END; last forever, endure forever, go on forever.
ETERNIZE, immortalize, eternalize, monumentalize, perpetuate.
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| ADJECTIVE: | PERPETUAL, eternal; everduring, everlasting, everliving, everflowing; continual, sempiternal, sempiternous [rare], eviternal [rare]; coeternal; endless, unending; ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent [obs.], unceasing; interminable, eterne [poetic], having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine; never-ending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable.
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| ADVERB: | PERPETUALLY &c. adj.; always, ever, evermore [archaic], aye; forever, for aye, forevermore, forever and a day, forever and ever; forever and aye, in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without end, time without end; in secula seculorum [L.]; to the end “last syllable of recorded time” [Macbeth]; till doomsday; constantly &c. (very frequently) [See Frequency].
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Esto perpetuum.
- Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum.—Horace
- But thou shall flourish in immortal youth.—Addison
- Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.—Addison
- Her immortal part with angels lives.—Romeo and Juliet
- Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast.—Goethe’s motto
- Ora e sempre.
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