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
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
The New York Herald: "By far the finest and most perdurable novel in English that has as yet come out of the War."
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
But this also is vanity, there is one end appointed alike to all, fact goes the way of fiction, and what is known is no more perdurable than what is made.
From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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