Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not perishable; imperishable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Imperishable.
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- adjective Not
perishable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Walk the streets of Brooklyn and you'll see the trucks bounding down the potholed streets and you'll go by the small international shipping storefronts that handle the big, spool-like parcels stuffed with toiletries, bedding, underwear, children's clothes, and nearly unperishable boxes of Ramen Noodle foodstuffs.
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Walk the streets of Brooklyn and you'll see the trucks bounding down the potholed streets and you'll go by the small international shipping storefronts that handle the big, spool-like parcels stuffed with toiletries, bedding, underwear, children's clothes, and nearly unperishable boxes of Ramen Noodle foodstuffs.
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I want happiness to cause your haapiness to be your happiness so take me someplace far away to a true Elsewhere please take me there magic that lasts never-ending love revery without break unperishable bliss take me
whiteplum Diary Entry whiteplum 2004
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They treated us generously, giving unstintingly of what they had, and we left Debeho with clean, dry garments, our tents patched and oiled, our stores replenished with unperishable goods and our mounts well tended.
Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003
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The perishable goods were placed in the large warehouses but the unperishable were covered with tarpaulin and left where unloaded.
Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events H. DeF. [Illustrator] Patterson
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Britain and Denmark have performed such deeds as will immortalize them for their humanity, in the breasts of the philanthropists of the present day; whilst, as a just tribute to their virtues, after-ages will yet erect unperishable monuments to their memory.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams
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Because of their unperishable nature, they may be stored in large quantities and distributed to consumers as they are needed and at a price that is fairly uniform.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
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Hence Augustine says (De Vera Relig. xxix) that "in the study of creatures we must not exercise an empty and futile curiosity, but should make them the stepping-stone to things unperishable and everlasting."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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She is putting spirit into the age, old and young; she labors upon immortal nature; she is laying the foundation of unperishable excellence and happiness.
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To North Carolina belongs the unperishable honor of being the first in declaring that Independence, which is the pride and glory of every American.
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