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eternize
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e·ter·nize  (-tûrnz)
tr.v. e·ter·nized, e·ter·niz·ing, e·ter·niz·es
1.
a. To make eternal.
b. To protract for an indefinite period.
2. To make perpetually famous; immortalize.
[French éterniser, from Old French eterne, eternal; see eterne.]
e·terni·zation (-n-zshn) n.
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Verb1.eternize - cause to continue indefinitely
perpetuate - cause to continue or prevail; "perpetuate a myth"
2.eternize - make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer"
eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
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In Webster, for example, the Duchess of Malfi's tomb, like Cleopatra's monument, becomes part of a "symbolic system" that registers "the eternizing artifice of the play itself" (331), promising to "overtop and outlast all the vain architecture of courtly grandeur" (352).
Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy by Bartels, Emily C. / Shakespeare Studies
With this somber reflection, which dashes poetry's eternizing pretensions, he signs himself "A ready will.
"Exercise in this kind": Shakespeare and the "Funeral Elegy" for ... by Abrams, Richard / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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