English Explanatory Dictionary

world without end

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. For all time.

Word forms

world without end

Etymology

A loose translation of in saeculum saeculi (“into an age of an age”) and in saecula saeculorum (“into ages of ages”), Latin formulas meaning “for ever and ever”; the latter appears prominently in Christian liturgy, being the last line of the Lesser Doxology. In the English counterpart world without end, world carries the archaic sense “age”. The phrase is attested from the Old English period onwards and appears in both the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible.

Synonyms

for ever and ever unto the ages of ages
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