perdurable
Americanadjective
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very durable; permanent; imperishable.
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Theology. eternal; everlasting.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- perdurability noun
- perdurableness noun
- perdurably adverb
- unperdurable adjective
- unperdurably adverb
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 law of causation is applicable only to changes; not to the forces of nature, to matter, or to the world as a whole, which are perdurable.
From Project Gutenberg
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
We are told that a thing is in our ‘soul-blood’ and our ‘soul-bones;’ and we hear of ‘marmoreal floods’ that ‘spread their couch of perdurable snow.’
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The old world held the secret; and he would accept this solitary and perdurable column as the symbol of that secret.
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They were not fossils, but perdurable images of stone.
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