ETERNALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eternally mean? 

• ETERNALLY (adverb)
  The adverb ETERNALLY has 1 sense:

1. for a limitless time

  Familiarity information: ETERNALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETERNALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For a limitless time

Synonyms:

eternally; everlastingly; evermore; forever

Context example:

brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore

Pertainym:

eternal (continuing forever or indefinitely)

 Context examples 

If I were Mr. Van Weyden, who harps eternally on questions of right and wrong, I’d ask, by what right do you live when you do nothing to deserve living?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But there’s one thing you are saved by livin’ in the country, and that is ’avin’ the young Corinthians and bloods about town smackin’ you eternally in the face.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Julia keeps no diary in these days; never sings Affection's Dirge; eternally quarrels with the old Scotch Croesus, who is a sort of yellow bear with a tanned hide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"You had made me eternally your debtor had you shaken out the flame," he said.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But it is your happiness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But I cannot call that situation nothing which has the charge of all that is of the first importance to mankind, individually or collectively considered, temporally and eternally, which has the guardianship of religion and morals, and consequently of the manners which result from their influence.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He can only give you a boost on the path you eternally must tread.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All his past was the Venusburg motif, while her he identified somehow with the Pilgrim's Chorus motif; and from the exalted state this elevated him to, he swept onward and upward into that vast shadow-realm of spirit-groping, where good and evil war eternally.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But always, in the foreground, lords of beauty and eternally reading and sharing, lay he and Ruth, and always in the background that was beyond the background of nature, dim and hazy, were work and success and money earned that made them free of the world and all its treasures.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They sank lower and lower into the muddy abyss, back into the dregs of the raw beginnings of life, striving blindly and chemically, as atoms strive, as the star-dust of the heavens strives, colliding, recoiling, and colliding again and eternally again.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)