Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being perishable; liability to speedy decay or destruction; lack of keeping or lasting qualities.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being perishable; perishability.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being subject to decay or spoilage or destruction
Etymologies
- perishable + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Perhaps their perishableness was the excuse for allowing their sale on the”
“For we can have no adequate idea of their duration (by the last Prop.), and this is what we must understand by the contingency and perishableness of things.”
“For what is accidental is capable of not being present, but perishableness is one of the attributes that belong of necessity to the things to which they belong; or else one and the same thing may be perishable and imperishable, if perishableness is capable of not belonging to it.”
“But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness!”
“Thus are ye advocates and justifiers of all perishableness.”
“Moreover, we shall not make it difficult to bring about an understanding between the Darwinian theories and the Biblical doctrine, by supporting the other view taught by the Holy Scripture -- that death came into the animal world first through the fall of man, and that the fall of man first brought the character of perishableness {324} into the condition of the earth or even of the universe.”
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
“In perusing these old catalogues one cannot help being astonished at the sudden and great increase of books; and when one reflects that a great, perhaps the greater, part of them no longer exists, this perishableness of human labours will excite the same sensations as those which arise in the mind when one reads in a church-yard the names and titles of persons long since mouldered into dust.”
“Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented themselves; the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant recurred to my mind.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
“Time and their own "inherent perishableness" soon remove all traces of the poetasters.”
“Had railroad facilities been abundant a multitude of small cultivators might have shipped their cane to central mills for manufacture, but as things were the weight and the perishableness of the cane made milling within the reach of easy cartage imperative.”
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