Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of lasting; durability; permanence; long continuance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of
lasting ;duration ,permanence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
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Examples
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Further to the notion of giving account of ourselves, of indexing as David Altjmed's recent show undertakes, Carreiro examines the idea of impermanence, the delicacy and to use a Lisa Robertson term "lastingness" of text, and literally of letters themselves.
Archive 2007-12-01 Lemon Hound 2007
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Further to the notion of giving account of ourselves, of indexing as David Altjmed's recent show undertakes, Carreiro examines the idea of impermanence, the delicacy and to use a Lisa Robertson term "lastingness" of text, and literally of letters themselves.
Art Alert: Random Ideas Lemon Hound 2007
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Real love, he asks; not the degraded things to which men give that great name, as to every passing gust of feeling, to every unworthy untamed emotion: but the divine quality, when to the "lastingness," which he requires, is also joined that which is the inner essence of Love, viz., sacrifice.
The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901
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The artist must avoid rigidity, must stay fresh and open to possibility, if he or she is to achieve "lastingness."
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The artist must avoid rigidity, must stay fresh and open to possibility, if he or she is to achieve "lastingness."
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For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls" -- big lumps of the most delicious lastingness.
Chapter 5 2010
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He writes in his introduction: What interests me is lastingness: how it may be attained.
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He writes in his introduction: What interests me is lastingness: how it may be attained.
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Perhaps our feelings obey the laws of nature as to the lastingness of her creations; to a long life a long childhood.
Ursula 2006
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Item: To lovers I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, or aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
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