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
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
Ford agrees about the need for a perdurable relationship, advocating periodic 15-minute visits to the physician by somatizers.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the domestic relationship is illuminated by a playwright of size, intensity and perception, it becomes the perdurable stuff of human existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Moors had built upon it and characterized it, but had not so masked it as to hide the perdurable physiognomy of the Roman work.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
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