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aeon

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What does aeon mean?

noun

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of eon.
  2. A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
  3. Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of aeon.

proper noun

  1. (slang) The ship of characters Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong of Resident Evil.

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During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture.
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GrayProject Gutenberg ebook #174
With greater apparent plausibility, the divine aeon was substituted for the human father, and a myth sprang up, of which the materialistic details furnished to the opponents of the new religion an opportunity for making the most gross and exasperating insinuations.
John FiskeThe Unseen World, and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1486