aeon
aeon
Definition
aeon (ē′ən, ē′än′)
noun
aeon
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- time: The writer has such an easy-going style that we dance our way through eons of time.
- evolution: They too have their experience and that experience slowly modifies their inner spiritual natures which also progress during eons of evolution.
- year: It took on strange garbs for long eons of years, And now in the soul of yourself It appears.
Converse of object
- take: When we realize more that it takes eons to develop right understanding we shall be less inclined to think in terms of progress.
- seem: I'm looking forward all the time, and while the shifts seem eons long, the weeks are flying by.
- spend: For some reason, when we're by ourselves, we spend eons wallowing in water.
- die: Springs gush from ground that is supposedly frozen solid; volcanoes erupt on a planet that scientists think dies eons ago.
- pass: The four seconds I had to put my mask on passed eons ago.
Adjective modifier
- new: This new eon would bring forth a new community of perfected beings who have no need of clergy or sacraments or scripture.
- long: The ancient peoples of the flint, bronze and iron cultures heroically cleared them of their thin forests long eons ago.
- last: You have had the comet cluster before in antiquity, but the wave was last here eons ago.
- countless: We have to see and we have to hear already for countless eons.
- previous: Each differentiation is stamped with characteristics brought over from previous eons of being.
- final: She held the final eon above her head, and let the darkness completely eclipse her body.
Modifies a noun
- book: Eon Books reserves the right at any time to revise its prices without notice.
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