perdurable

[per-door-uh-buhl, -dyoor-]

adjective

1. very durable; permanent; imperishable.

2. Theology.,  eternal; everlasting.

perdurable

/ pəˈdjʊərəbəl /

adjective

1. rare,  extremely durable

Other Word Forms

• perdurability noun
• perdurableness noun
• perdurably adverb
• unperdurable adjective
• unperdurably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of perdurable¹

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English word from Late Latin word perdūrābilis. See per-, dure ², -able

Word History and Origins

Origin of perdurable¹

C13: from Late Latin perdūrābilis, from Latin per- (intensive) + dūrābilis long-lasting, from dūrus hard

Example Sentences

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.’

From Project Gutenberg

The old world held the secret; and he would accept this solitary and perdurable column as the symbol of that secret.

From Project Gutenberg

They were not fossils, but perdurable images of stone.

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