Obs. Metaph. [f. AY adv. + -NESS.] Everlastingness; applied as a special term to the ‘second degree of eternity’ possessed by angels and spirits.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, ix. (1617), 141. The measure of such things as haue a fixed and stable being, and yet haue also a certaine succession in their operations, of which sort are the vnderstanding Spirits or Angels; and this is properly called Aynesse.
