Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a permanent or lasting manner; so as to remain: as, to serve permanently; to settle permanently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a permanent manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
permanent manner;lastingly . - adverb
Forever .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb for a long time without essential change
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them ’permanently’ meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash - to pee."
Here's where I pick out all my favorite quotes from the things I've collected on this blog over the past year. Ann Althouse 2007
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"Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them ’permanently’ meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash - to pee."
Archive 2007-12-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Last October, a court in Normandy ruled in favor of his lawsuit to have his name permanently deleted from church records -- making the 71-year-old retiree the first Frenchman to be officially "de-baptized."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jahnabi Barooah 2012
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Winning cities retain the title permanently, but some cities have won on multiple occasions.
unknown title 2009
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He was appointed interim commissioner in 2005 and took the title permanently a year later on an appointment from then President George H. Bush.
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He was appointed interim commissioner in 2005 and took the title permanently a year later on an appointment from then President George H. Bush.
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I remain permanently uncomfortable with the fact that writers I like are also mortals who can get sick, or die.
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BP dividend will remain permanently at lower levels
BP boss Bob Dudley draws a line under 'traumatic' period Tim Webb 2010
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BP's dividend will not be restored to pre-Gulf spill levels when it resumes its payout to shareholders and is expected to remain permanently lower.
BP boss Bob Dudley draws a line under 'traumatic' period Tim Webb 2010
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• Although not yet confirmed, spacecraft such as the Lunar Prospector and Clementine have turned up exciting indications that substantial water ice deposits may exist in permanently shaded areas at the lunar poles such as Shackleton Crater.
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