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aeon Definition

aeon (ēən, ēän′)

noun

eon

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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