eternize

[ ih-tur-nahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, e·ter·nized, e·ter·niz·ing.

1. to make eternal; perpetuate.
2. to immortalize.

Other Words From

• e·terni·zation noun
• une·ternized adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of eternize¹

From the Medieval Latin word ēternizāre, dating back to 1560–70. See eterne, -ize

Example Sentences

A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.

From Washington Post

Frank Van Riper’s black-and-white photographs and accompanying text eternize two idiosyncratic decades that will never be duplicated.

From New York Times

The several unexpected victories obtained under your Excellency’s conduct will eternize the same unto all posterity.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus should heroes be eternized in brass, or granite, or marble, while they are instinct with the glory of action, not when they are aged and fatten and grow bilious and use ear-trumpets.

From Project Gutenberg

These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”

From Project Gutenberg