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perdurable

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

adjective

  1. very durable; permanent; imperishable.
  2. Theology. eternal; everlasting.


perdurable

/ əˈʊəəə /

adjective

  1. rare.
    extremely durable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܰ, adverb
  • ˌܰˈٲ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·ܰa·i·ٲ ·ܰa··Ա noun
  • ·ܰa· adverb
  • ܲp·ܰa· adjective
  • un·ܰa· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of perdurable1

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English word from Late Latin word ū. See per-, dure 2, -able
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of perdurable1

C13: from Late Latin ū, from Latin per- (intensive) + ū long-lasting, from ūܲ hard
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The law of causation is applicable only to changes; not to the forces of nature, to matter, or to the world as a whole, which are perdurable.

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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.

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We are told that a thing is in our ‘soul-blood’ and our ‘soul-bones;’ and we hear of ‘marmoreal floods’ that ‘spread their couch of perdurable snow.’

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

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They were not fossils, but perdurable images of stone.

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