perennity
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun The quality of being perennial.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun An enduring or continuing through the whole year without ceasing.
Examples
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His greatest mistake was to not ensure the perennity of his plan.
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“With this fiction,” one critic wrote, “Clarice Lispector awakens the literature currently being produced in Brazil from a depressing and degrading lethargy and elevates it to a level of universal perennity and perfection.”
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Giving up perennity and emerging oneself in time, means that one is condemned to the fads of fashion.
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O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The perennity of reason imposes that of beauty, since if beauty were to change, reason, which is the judge of beauty, would change also.
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It is the contrast between the rather incoherent ways of the rovers of high life and the character of perennity impressed everywhere in the great city of the Caesars and of the Popes which has caused me to choose the spot where even the corners speak of a secular past, there to evoke some representatives of the most modern, as well as the most arbitrary and the most momentary, life.
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The following, however, must be added, for the benefit of all of whom it may concern: -- The good man to whom we owe fables and stories of sempiternal authority only used his tool on them, having taken his material from others; but the workmanship expended on these little figures has given them a high value; and although he was, like M. Louis Ariosto, vituperated for thinking of idle pranks and trifles, there is a certain insect engraved by him which has since become a monument of perennity more assured than that of the most solidly built works.
Note
The word 'perennity' comes from a Latin word meaning "the state of existing for a long time".
