Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To last permanently; endure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To last for all time or for a very long time; endure or continue long, or forever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Archaic To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
endure ; especially for a great length of time - verb philosophy to exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in
perdurantism )
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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G.R. Mead: But the hard irreducible fact remains that one and only one combination of our prodigiously inventive sexual imagining is actually and naturally fruitful — as in, forms a self-replicating society that will perdure to need the law you craft forit.
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But the hard irreducible fact remains that one and only one combination of our prodigiously inventive sexual imagining is actually and naturally fruitful — as in, forms a self-replicating society that will perdure to need the law you craft for it.
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These sorts of attacks and problems will perdure as long as the relation between Rome and the Society is nebulous.
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El GNU/Linux i els projectes de codi obert tracten del codi interior que està en les arrels de tot allò bo que tenim i que es rebel·la contra el pitjor que hi ha en nosaltres mateixos i que existirà mentre la humanitat perdure.
Archive 2007-07-01 glyn moody 2007
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El GNU/Linux i els projectes de codi obert tracten del codi interior que està en les arrels de tot allò bo que tenim i que es rebel·la contra el pitjor que hi ha en nosaltres mateixos i que existirà mentre la humanitat perdure.
Catalonians of the World, Unite! glyn moody 2007
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Not only will one, catholic, and apostolic Church perdure to the end of history; that Church is and always will be holy, as the Bride of Christ whom he has made holy.
Infallibility: an infinite regress? Mike L 2007
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The upshot is that the stronger and more pervasive the NGO gets, the fewer families will form, grow, and perdure in a healthy manner.
The New Girl Order Mike L 2007
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The upshot is that the stronger and more pervasive the NGO gets, the fewer families will form, grow, and perdure in a healthy manner.
Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007
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Not only will one, catholic, and apostolic Church perdure to the end of history; that Church is and always will be holy, as the Bride of Christ whom he has made holy.
Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007
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The kind of identity that the Ricoeurian self has is not like the nonpersonal entities that perdure simply as in some significant sense
Paul Ricoeur Dauenhauer, Bernard 2005
epeolatrist commented on the word perdure
(v) to last permanently, to endure
January 28, 2009
qms commented on the word perdure
The insight of Barnum was pure -
There's one born per minute for sure.
That worm has not turned
And nothing is learned
So bunkum and folly perdure.
February 12, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word perdure
Fabulous, qms.
February 13, 2017
qms commented on the word perdure
You are kind, ruzuzu.
February 13, 2017