Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of enduring; durability; permanence.
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- noun The quality of being
enduring ;lastingness .
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- noun permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
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Examples
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Despite vinyl being the most standard material for these record discs, there were still some issues with its enduringness.
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Her characters - - their lives, their triumphs, and their failures – speak to the enduringness of love and truth and the dominance of the human spirit.
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Her characters - - their lives, their triumphs, and their failures – speak to the enduringness of love and truth and the dominance of the human spirit.
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Her characters - - their lives, their triumphs, and their failures – speak to the enduringness of love and truth and the dominance of the human spirit.
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And we think happiness has pleasure mingled with it, but the activity of philosophic wisdom is admittedly the pleasantest of virtuous activities; at all events the pursuit of it is thought to offer pleasures marvellous for their purity and their enduringness, and it is to be expected that those who know will pass their time more pleasantly than those who inquire.
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002
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She realized, first of all, the enduringness of the marbles.
Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason
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Again, clearness is one of the first elements in style, and on poetry attaining clearness, depends, in great measure, its enduringness in the future.
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And yet this very modesty, this unambitious [109] way of conceiving his work, has impressed upon it a certain exceptional enduringness.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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And we think happiness has pleasure mingled with it, but the activity of philosophic wisdom is admittedly the pleasantest of virtuous activities; at all events the pursuit of it is thought to offer pleasures marvellous for their purity and their enduringness, and it is to be expected that those who know will pass their time more pleasantly than those who inquire.
The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865
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If you are anticipating the uttermost in enduringness and put on resistivity, then the wood deck tile ambit would be the chief testimonial. base (with appropriate planning) barely by snarling the tiles collectively. condividi - cerca i tuoi siti preferiti -
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