perdurable
Americanadjective
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very durable; permanent; imperishable.
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Theology. eternal; everlasting.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of perdurable
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English word from Late Latin word perdūrābilis. See per-, dure 2, -able
Example Sentences
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The specter of this guilt -- this perdurable archetype of the hostile homecoming -- animates today’s encounters, which seem to have swung to the other unthinking extreme.
From BusinessWeek • Aug. 2, 2011
The house is surrounded by 200 rosebushes, all tended by a very tall gardener with thorn scratches on his hands and a look of perdurable tweed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ford agrees about the need for a perdurable relationship, advocating periodic 15-minute visits to the physician by somatizers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Glenn Ford, 61, perdurable, softspoken, intense Hollywood leading man, and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his three-year flame.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not fossils, but perdurable images of stone.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
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