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perdurable

[ per-door-uh-buhl, -dyoor- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

perdurable

/ pəˈdjʊərəbəl /

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English word from Late Latin word perdūrābilis. See per-, dure ², -able

C13: from Late Latin perdūrābilis, from Latin per- (intensive) + dūrābilis long-lasting, from dūrus hard

This is the meaning in the reference to the eternal throne (“perdurable chayer”) of God.

The old world held the secret; and he would accept this solitary and perdurable column as the symbol of that secret.

There was something perdurable in them as well as in her gaunt, sinewy frame.

She felt at once the fugitive character of its apparent existence, the perdurable Reality within which it was held.

The economics of the future will be based upon these elemental and perdurable truths.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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