perdurable
Americanadjective
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very durable; permanent; imperishable.
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Theology. eternal; everlasting.
adjective
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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 book, as its name suggests, would write finis to Travis McGee, the perdurable, persnickety shamus whose demise, white-haired Author John Dann MacDonald once vowed, would occur after his tenth color-coded* starring role.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is more interested in the use of things to give him the good life than in the possession of perdurable objects that will reassure him.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history.
From Time Magazine Archive
By whirling winds from ashy ring, Of dank weeds blackly smoldering, The peak sprang upward a quivering And perdurable, set its face Against the pulsing breast of space But for a moment to its base.
From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Isabella Valancy Crawford
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