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aeon esp US, eon [ˈiːən ˈiːɒn] n 1. an immeasurably long period of time; age 2. (Astronomy) a period of one thousand million years 3. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) (often capital) Gnosticism one of the powers emanating from the supreme being and culminating in the demiurge [from Greek aiōn an infinitely long time] Aeon an indefinitely long period of time. Example: aeons of time, 1647.
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| During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture. I have a dream of laying my head on your breast and sleeping an aeon or so, and the dream will come true ere another year is gone. I sighed, following the sartorial train of thought, even to the loathly arrows that had decorated my person once already for a little aeon. |
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