lasting
adjective
continuing or enduring a long time; permanent; durable.
lastingness
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a word derived from
lasting.
Example Sentences
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Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
For American originalists, in particular, Magna Carta has a special lastingness.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
Mystery is part of his beauty and his lastingness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2014
Pardon my gossipry, ah! kindest of Editors! while I ask if you believe in the lastingness of primary impressions?
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
For four centuries, at least, that self-same dial had marked the hour in that self-same spot, a silent commentary on the briefness of human existence, as compared with its own strange non- sentient lastingness.
From God's Good Man by Marie Corelli
