permanency
Americannoun
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a person or thing that is permanent
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another word for permanence
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Etymology
Origin of permanency
From the Medieval Latin word permanentia, dating back to 1545–55. See permanent, -ency
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Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin observed in 1815 that the people “are more Americans; they feel and act more as a nation; and I hope that the permanency of the Union is thereby better secured.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Sharing such a personal part of your life online can sometimes come with anxiety - something Seidman believes is down to a fear of online permanency.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
To say that I alone can do virtually anything suggests a degree of permanency, perhaps even supernatural power.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
In addition, she reinforced the legal permanency of the order by adding:
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2023
It was even harder this time because the girls were getting older and they wanted some sense of permanency and continuity in their lives.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the business and the art of life to degrade permanencies.
From Here are Ladies by James Stephens
Is it because 'tis unsubstantial all—senseless, though fair—and in its evanescence unsuited to the sympathies that yearn for the permanencies of breathing life?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
The man of sense is the visionary or illusionist, fancying things as permanencies, and thoughts as fleeting phantoms.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
But I cannot propose that she should live permanently with me because all future permanencies have been taken out of my hands.
From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
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