in perpetuum
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Doing skits as well as songs, the five-member cast is in perpetuum mobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Blackmer has retained counsel to recover his passport, arguing that he paid $10 for it and therefore it is his property in perpetuum.
From Time Magazine Archive
In castra ut est ventum, pronuntiant ambo, arma expedirent milites animosque ad 5 supremum certamen, non in unum diem sed in perpetuum, si felicitas adesset, victores.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
Alexander had not even the excuse that he thought he was disposing of uncultivated and uninhabited regions, since he specifies in his donation both towns and castles: "Civitates et castra in perpetuum tenore præsentium donamus."
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George
L. "Diabolus nos sejungat, ac nos conjugat Deus in perpetuum," &c.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
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