Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of preserving, or keeping safe or sound; the act of keeping from injury or decay: as, the preservation of life or of property.
  • noun The state of being preserved from injury or decay; escape from destruction or danger: as, a building in good preservation.
  • noun A means of security or escape.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; ; a picture in good preservation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the condition of being (well or ill) preserved
  • noun a process that saves organic substances from decay
  • noun the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
  • noun an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change

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Examples

  • He does it in preservation is of His rich goodness and mercy, so that we may well spend our lives in grateful praise, honoring to Him, and delightful to pious hearts (Ps 147: 1).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • I have a few ideas, but promising long term preservation is problematic, even for the Internet Archive.

    Scripting News for 3/29/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.

    Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives 2006

  • They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.

    Carroll and the ancient genetic tool kit 2005

  • They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.

    Carroll and the ancient genetic tool kit 2005

  • After mutual compliments had been exchanged, they proceeded to a long consultation concerning Vivaldi, and it was agreed, that their efforts for what they termed his preservation should no longer be confined to remonstrances.

    The Italian 2004

  • Most of this work was in what I call the preservation archive community, which has specific requirements for the preservation of information.

    Enterprise Storage Forum News 2009

  • Ships in this niche group are higher priority for longterm preservation, meaning Nomadic has a better chance of winning funding, including Heritage Lottery Funding.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • The metadata preservation is not what it could be either and this is causing problems with trying to do a very interesting and scientifically useful thing, which is to move our space based data regarding the state of the Arctic and Antarctic from the 70's back into the 60's.

    Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Update (LOIRP) 20 January 2009 - NASA Watch 2009

  • Self-preservation is generally one of the highest priorities for well-paid grasses, and thirty pieces of silver was a lot of money.

    Palm Sunday 2009

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