Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely durable; permanent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lasting; continuing long; everlasting; imperishable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Very durable; lasting; continuing long.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective very
durable ;longlasting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very long lasting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is said perdurable, for it is made perdurable, that is, of Jesu Christ.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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Vehement for he gave dread of love, or for that he took away the sorrow perdurable, which is malediction; or for that that he bare the heart out of carnal love.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Publishing, too, is steady work, for there can be no end to the constant, perdurable need to instruct and to engage by art and entertainment the whole of society no less than every one.
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Here is the set of ‘reasonably distinct, unequivocal and perdurable’ criteria, or determining principles, (the first four courtesy of Jonathan Culler), upon which Solway bases his judgments of poetry:
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Here is the set of ‘reasonably distinct, unequivocal and perdurable’ criteria, or determining principles, (the first four courtesy of Jonathan Culler), upon which Solway bases his judgments of poetry:
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Publishing, too, is steady work, for there can be no end to the constant, perdurable need to instruct and to engage by art and entertainment the whole of society no less than every one.
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Send us your gladiators with herpes, and your perdurable impetus.
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Certainly, we can make a very plausible argument that Mr. McCain has, when politically pressured, shown a proclivity to distort our Constitution in matters that have profound, perdurable implications.
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The strength of these exercises, which are a form of perdurable prayer, rests in the voices that accompany hers, children responding through the decades, syllable-crisp, a panpipe reply that is the lucid music of her life.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Later, Dauphin decries his side's broken ranks: O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.
Shakespeare on Games 2008
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