[ad. late L. æviternitas, f. æviternus: see EVITERNAL. Cf. OF. eviternité.] Eternity of duration; everlastingness. (See also quot. 1755.)
1596–1640. [see ÆVITERNITY].
1652. Bp. Hall, Invis. World, II. § 8 (1659), 130 (L.). There shall we … passe our eviternity of blisse in lauding and praising … our Creator.
1656. [? J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripat. Inst., 330. The notion and difference of three Durations is evident: of Time … of Eternity [explicated] when we treated of God: lastly, of Eviternity in Intelligences.
1755. Johnson, Eviternity, duration not infinitely, but indefinitely long.
1828. D’Israeli, Charles I., I. iii. 33. The questions … whether his [God’s] eternity was only an eviternity.
