perishable
adjective
subject to decay, ruin, or destruction.
perishableness
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a word derived from
perishable.
Example Sentences
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Man reflects deeply, and with feelings of a mortified nature, upon the perishableness of his frame, and the approaching close, so far as depends upon the evidence of our senses, of his existence.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin
Involved in that is the thought that all the limitations and weaknesses which are necessarily associated with the perishableness of the present abode are at an end for ever.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren
But in that we bury this treasure together with it, we do it in the remembrance—in this most enduring of works—of the perishableness of all human things.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
You wrong me, my dear fellow, I was wholly mad--a frightful example of the perishableness of all manly virtues.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
Webster" plead for us: "Alas for the perishableness of eloquence!
From Starr King in California by William Day Simonds
