eternize

English

Etymology

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Verb

1. (transitive) To make or render eternal.
2. (transitive) To prolong indefinitely.
3. (transitive) To immortalize; to make eternally famous.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:

     My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […]

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “eternize”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.