Crossword-Solution: SEMPITERNUS 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

For, the whole of Northern Europe rebelled against the Church at the beginning of the sixteenth century, to enter upon a new road of progress and civilization, as it has been called, ending finally in the frightful abyss of materialism and atheism which now gapes under the feet of modern nations--an abyss in whose yawning womb nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror habitat.

Such, too, had been the idea of the Epicurean Velleius, when he shrunk with horror from the "_sempiternus dominus_" and "_curiosus Deus_" of the Stoics.

The Greek equivalent of the English word "everlasting," and of the Latin word "_sempiternus_," namely _aidios_ from _aei_, is used in Rom.

About the tenth century, musicians tried the crude experiment,[11] called Organum, of making two groups of singers move in parallel fifths _e.g._, [Music: Tu Patris sempiternus es Filius.] but during the 13th and 14th centuries a method was worked out by which the introductory tune was made to generate its own subsequent tissue.

The sublime thought of that which is without beginning and end, lies only in +æternus+, not in +sempiternus+, for the latter word rather suggests the long duration between beginning and end, without noting that eternity _has_ neither beginning nor end.