Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Independent of time; timeless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from time relations or limitations; timeless.
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- adjective Unaffected by
time ;timeless ;permanent orunchanging .
Etymologies
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Examples
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History was treated as an atemporal free-for-all, even by magazine designers Wet Magazine, by April Greiman and Jayme Odgers.
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Many great minds have invested hours, years, careers and lifetimes debating whether God is within time (temporal), above and beyond time -- timeless (atemporal) -- or on God's own time (omnitemporal).
Lavaille Lavette: God And Time: The Now We Live Lavaille Lavette 2011
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Taken together, "God's Grandeur" is a brilliant Thomist argument about the significance of an atemporal God in a temporal world.
Argument in verse 2010
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As novelist William Gibson has said, music is perhaps the most atemporal of artistic endeavors.
William Bradley: The Beatles' Rubber Soul : 45th Anniversary of One of the Most Influential Albums William Bradley 2010
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If the conventional narrative is an arc and the cyclic narrative a circle, the cubist narrative is a polygon with every moment a facet, the narrative to be understand from an atemporal perspective, as a whole -- as if, in stepping back from a cubist painting we suddenly see it resolve into the representation that it is.
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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As novelist William Gibson has said, music is perhaps the most atemporal of artistic endeavors.
William Bradley: The Beatles' Rubber Soul : 45th Anniversary of One of the Most Influential Albums William Bradley 2010
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As novelist William Gibson has said, music is perhaps the most atemporal of artistic endeavors.
William Bradley: The Beatles' Rubber Soul : 45th Anniversary of One of the Most Influential Albums William Bradley 2010
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As novelist William Gibson has said, music is perhaps the most atemporal of artistic endeavors.
William Bradley: The Beatles' Rubber Soul: 45th Anniversary of One of the Most Influential Albums William Bradley 2010
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As novelist William Gibson has said, music is perhaps the most atemporal of artistic endeavors.
William Bradley: The Beatles' Rubber Soul: 45th Anniversary of One of the Most Influential Albums William Bradley 2010
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As novelist William Gibson has said, music is perhaps the most atemporal of artistic endeavors.
William Bradley: The Beatles' Rubber Soul: 45th Anniversary of One of the Most Influential Albums William Bradley 2010
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