[f. CO- 3 a + ETERNITY.] Coeternal existence or quality; eternal existence with another; equal eternity.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, v. 59. Neither is the Sunne afore his beames, nor the Sunne or beames afore the light, otherwise than … that the beames are begotten and the light is proceeding, which is an apparant image of the Coeternitie.
1659. Pearson, Creed (1839), 76. This coeternity of matter opposeth God’s independency.
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), I. IV. lvii. 262. The antient Persians held a coeternity of these two principles.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), IX. XIV. iii. 125. Aristotle’s tenet of the co-eternity of matter.
