world without end

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world

(wûrld)

a. The earth, especially together with the life it supports: a chemical found all over the world; an ecological disaster that could threaten the entire world.

b. The universe: how the ancients conceived the world.

a. Humankind considered as social beings; human society: turned her back on the world.

b. People as a whole; the public: The event amazed the world.

3. often World A specified part of the earth: the Western World.

4. A part of the earth and its inhabitants as known at a given period in history: the ancient world.

5. A realm or domain: the animal world; the world of imagination.

a. A sphere of human activity or interest: the world of sports.

b. A class or group of people with common characteristics or pursuits: the scientific world.

7. A particular way of life: the world of the homeless.

8. All that relates to or affects the life of a person: He saw his world collapse about him.

9. Secular life and its concerns: a man of the world.

10.

a. Human existence; life: brought a child into the world.

b. A state of existence: the next world.

11. often worlds A large amount; much: did her a world of good; candidates that are worlds apart on foreign policy.

12. A celestial body such as a planet: the possibility of life on other worlds.

adj.

1. Of or relating to the world: a world champion.

2. Involving or extending throughout the entire world: a world crisis.

Idioms:

for all the world

In all respects; precisely: She looked for all the world like a movie star.

in the world

Used as an intensive: How in the world did they manage? I never in the world would have guessed.

out of this world Informal

Extraordinary; superb: The dinner was out of this world.

the world over

Throughout the world: known the world over.

world without end

Forever.

[Middle English, from Old English weorold; see wī-ro- in Indo-European roots.]

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world without end

adjective

Enduring for all time:

amaranthine, ceaseless, endless, eternal, everlasting, immortal, never-ending, perpetual, unending.

Archaic: eterne.

noun

The quality or state of having no end:

ceaselessness, endlessness, eternality, eternalness, eternity, everlastingness, perpetuity.

References in classic literature ?

For Thou art the defense, the succor, and the victory of them that put their trust in Thee, and to Thee be all glory, to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, now and forever, world without end. Amen."

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But I'd travel faster with you just the same, was what he wanted to blurt out, as he caught a vision of a world without end of sunlit spaces and starry voids through which he drifted with her, his arm around her, her pale gold hair blowing about his face.

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Rachel says, `Pyes they always were and Pyes they always will be, world without end, amen.' I want to talk of pleasanter things.

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The M'Choakumchild school was all fact, and the school of design was all fact, and the relations between master and man were all fact, and everything was fact between the lying-in hospital and the cemetery, and what you couldn't state in figures, or show to be purchaseable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen.

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And so it has always been for ages and ages, world without end!

What's Love Got To Do With It?

Actually, "world without end," found in the King James Version (the most celebrated and authoritative English translation of the Bible for many centuries), is a translation of "saeculasaeculorum," a Latin phrase that occurs 18 times in the New Testament.

When will the world end?

Such is our helpless human condition, but not hopeless, because of our faith in the Lord's promise of eternal life and a world without end.

Signs along the way

WORLD WITHOUT END By Thomas Keating and Joseph Boyle with Lucette Verboven (Bloomsbury, 2017)

WORLD WITHOUT END

It's the first time we've worked together; we met on the Channel 4 miniseries World Without End, but we shared one scene in that and didn't exchange any dialogue.

Passionate Welshman Tom is at the top of his game; He's probably best known - on both sides of the Atlantic - for melting hearts in Downton Abbey. But Aberystwythborn actor Tom Cullen has his own heart in more independent, riskier ventures, such as his latest project Black Mountain Poets - a riotous comedy set deep in the Brecon Beacons. From LA, he speaks to Rob Driscoll

It's a world without end. No amount of dogs or wire netting will solve that.

Time for Chilcot to publish so we can all see who is to be damned

I After all: this world without end, Amen, The news coming on the News, on the phone.