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Constantly vs Eternally - What's the difference?

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Constantly is a related term of eternally.


As adverbs the difference between constantly and eternally

is that constantly is (archaic) with steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully while eternally is for eternity; forever.

constantly

English

Alternative forms

* constantlie * constauntly

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (archaic) With steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully.
  • * , I.iv.1:
  • Agrippa and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought himnot to offer violence unto himself, ‘with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it’; and so constantly died.
  • In a constant manner; occurring continuously; persistently.
  • (frequency) Recurring regularly.
  • I find that I am constantly reminding you to feed your pets.
  • In an unchangeable or invariable manner; in every case.
  • eternally

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • For eternity; forever.
  • Unceasingly, recurringly.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1908, author= W. B. M. Ferguson
  • , title= Zollenstein, chapter=1 , passage=The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.}}