permanency
noun
permanencies
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pluralof permanency.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly unreal, and the glory of both is fleeting.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
An old Englishwoman completed our list of permanencies.
From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard
I can stand her in homeopathic doses, but the Riviera isn't nearly big enough for the two of us as permanencies.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson
The man of sense is the visionary or illusionist, fancying things as permanencies, and thoughts as fleeting phantoms.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
