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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To last permanently; endure.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To last for all time or for a very long time; endure or continue long, or forever.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to endure; especially for a great length of time
  2. v. philosophy to exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Archaic To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.

Etymologies

  1. Middle English perduren, from Old French pardurer, from Latin perdūrāre; see perdurable. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “These sorts of attacks and problems will perdure as long as the relation between Rome and the Society is nebulous.”

    The Journeys of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer

  • “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.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year

  • “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.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year

  • “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

  • “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!

  • “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

  • “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

  • “In this sense, we can ask whether continuants endure or perdure.”

    Temporal Parts

  • “Sacrament of the Household Altar, the first and primal one of all, the one that shall perdure, please God! throughout all ages of ages.”

    Back Home

  • “That this magnificent Power might still perdure --”

    Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses

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  • epeolatrist (v) to last permanently, to endure Jan 28, 2009

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