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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Aseveró que hay algo profundamente perdurable en el mariachi y en la manera en que forma a los jóvenes que lo tocan.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022
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
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
I haue profest me thy Friend, and I confesse me knit to thy deseruing, with Cables of perdurable toughnesse.
From Othello by Shakespeare, William
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