perdure

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He's going to be there for the month of January, working unbearably long hours as a computer consultant (it's the 'curse of the good' - those too good at their jobs not to be used & abused) but I was particularly pleased to learn that his penury ways perdure: you can take the boy out of Frugalville, but you can't take the frugal out of the boy.

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  1. intransitive verb To last permanently; endure.

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  • He's going to be there for the month of January, working unbearably long hours as a computer consultant (it's the 'curse of the good' - those too good at their jobs not to be used & abused) but I was particularly pleased to learn that his penury ways perdure: you can take the boy out of Frugalville, but you can't take the frugal out of the boy. —  Video Meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor
  • Un explorateur très léger à interface déroulante qui se manipule au doigt (la mode de l'iphone perdure ...). —  Pocket Pc Freeware
  • With the credit strike making fresh difficult than ever to establish a mortgage, it's never been more important to inaugurate incontestable that you perdure a good avowal score. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • That this magnificent Power might still perdure -- —  Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses
  • Remember that she lived That this magnificent Power might still perdure-- Your friend, your passionate servant, counsellor, Queen IV Be that your chief of mourning--that ENGLAND_, O Mother, and you, The daughter Kingdoms born and reared Of ENGLAND'S travail and sweet blood; And never will you lands, The live Earth over and round, Wherethrough for sixty royal and radiant years Her drum-tap made the dawns English--Never will you So fittingly and well have paid your debt Of grief and gratitude to the souls That sink in ENGLAND'S harness into the dream: 'I die for ENGLAND'S sake, and it is well': As now to this valiant, wonderful piece of earth, To which the assembling nations bare the head, And bend the knee, In absolute veneration--once your Queen Sceptre and orb and crown_, High ensigns of a sovranty empaling The glory and love and praise of a whole half-world_, Fall from her_, and_, preceding_, she departs Into the old_, indissoluble Peace EPILOGUE Into a land Storm-wrought, a place of quakes, all thunder-scarred, Helpless, degraded, desolate, Peace, the White Angel, comes. —  Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses
 

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  1. Middle English perduren, from Old French pardurer, from Latin perdūrāre; see perdurable.

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  1. = Old French perdurer, pardurer = Italian perdurare, from Latin perdurare, last, hold out, endure, continue, Late Latin also make hard, from per, through, + durare, last, also make hard: see dure. Cf. endure.
 

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