Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Permanence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
permanence .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of
permanence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration
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Examples
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I call a permanency in our choice against opposition.
Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved 1616-1683 1965
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MIREK TOPOLANEK, CZECH PRIME MINISTER (through translator): All of these steps, that combination and the permanency is a way to hell.
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MIREK TOPOLANEK, CZECH PRIME MINISTER: One of these steps -- the combination and the permanency is a way to help.
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MIREK TOPOLANEK, CZECH PRIME MINISTER (through translator): All of these steps, their combination and their permanency is a way to hell.
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MIREK TOPOLANEK, CZECH PRIME MINISTER (through translator): All of these steps, the combination and the permanency is a way to hell.
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All of these steps, combination and their permanency is a way to hell.
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All of these steps, their combination and the permanency is a way to hell.
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Their permanency is the crowning result of the proper methods -- methods which eradicate the trouble at its source -- treat and remove the cause instead of treating the effect.
Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
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Out of the forms grow traditions, and from the traditions grow permanency, which is woman's only protection.
Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl
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The non-permanency, further, of a substance consists in its being the abode of those particular states which are called origination and destruction; how then should permanency, which is of an opposite nature, reside in the substance at the same time?
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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