Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being imperishable. imperishably (im-per'i-sha-bli), adverb So as to be imperishable.
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- noun The characteristic or property of being
imperishable .
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- noun the property of being resistant to decay
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Examples
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Beneath the social mortality, we feel human imperishableness.
Les Miserables 2008
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In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.
The American Scholar 2006
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The same account holds good for imperishableness also; for both are attributes which are present of necessity.
Metaphysics Aristotle 2002
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No! the supposition of imperishableness is always with him; else there would hang always before his soul, as before Mahomet's in the fairest sky, a dark cloud; and, as Cain upon the earth, an eternal fear would pursue him.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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Christianity upon the imperishableness of poverty, and upon the duties corresponding to it.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various
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In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.
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And the same may be said of the immortal: if the immortal is also imperishable, then the soul will be imperishable as well as immortal; but if not, some other proof of her imperishableness will have to be given.
Phædo. Paras. 500-599 Plato 1909
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In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.
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Scripture refers to the fruit of mere works, such as the kâturmâsya - sacrifices, as something imperishable, we have to understand this imperishableness in a merely relative sense, for Scripture definitely teaches that the fruit of all works is perishable.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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That which has become a part of history and science has thereby attained to imperishableness.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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