in perpetuum
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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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
Doing skits as well as songs, the five-member cast is in perpetuum mobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Praesenti in perpetuum valituro absque ulla Brevis expeditione.
From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by
On April 16, 1767, is found the election of 'Georgium Strahan, sophistam in perpetuum hujus Collegii Socium.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by Boswell, James
X. Vates Hiberniæ vaticinabantur Adventurum tempus pacis novum Quæ duratura sit in perpetuum Unde deserta foret Temorea sub silentio.
From A Hymn on the Life, Virtues and Miracles of St. Patrick Composed by his Disciple, Saint Fiech, Bishop of Sletty by Fiech, Saint
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