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
The sense of lastingness was gone from her and every moment with Harney would now be ringed with doubt.
From Summer by Edith Wharton
When the work was finally to be taken up, it was to be upon a solid foundation which should last with the lastingness of education.
From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Harry Best
