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
And considering the lastingness of the Motions excited in the bottom of the Eye by Light, are they not of a vibrating nature?
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
When they shall die much of the unwritten lore will perish too, for with them will cease that sympathetic and perfect credence, which alone gives to folk-lore vitality and lastingness.
From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell
