perdurable
Americanadjective
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very durable; permanent; imperishable.
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Theology. eternal; everlasting.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of perdurable
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English word from Late Latin word perdūrābilis. See per-, dure 2, -able
Example Sentences
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The specter of this guilt -- this perdurable archetype of the hostile homecoming -- animates today’s encounters, which seem to have swung to the other unthinking extreme.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 2, 2011
But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history.
From Time Magazine Archive
The New York Herald: "By far the finest and most perdurable novel in English that has as yet come out of the War."
From Time Magazine Archive
Glenn Ford, 61, perdurable, softspoken, intense Hollywood leading man, and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his three-year flame.
From Time Magazine Archive
The primal object of religion is to disclose to us this perdurable basis of life, and foster our growth into communion with it.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn
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