Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Permanent; durable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Permanent; durable.

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  • adjective obsolete permanent; durable

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Examples

  • He had put out of his heart all secular things so that his conversation was in heaven, for he had addressed all his desire for to come to the joy permanable.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • Also he deigned to be born of a poor woman, and was poor for to enrich us, and draw us out of the misery of this world to the riches permanable.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • Ah! sweet virgin, pray thou to Jesu Christ for us, for thou wert the first flower of the holy poor ladies which hast drawn to penance without number, and that thou mayst conduct us to the life permanable.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

  • They ween that there be none other life but this which they see tofore their eyes, which after this shall come to nought: if they knew what is that other life without death and without heaviness, in which is joy permanable and everlasting, without doubt they would haste them for to go with you unto that life and should repute this life as vain.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • Lord Jesu Christ, I yield me unto thy desire, and thank thee that thou hast vouchsafed to call me to thee, if it please thee, receive me for to be with my brethren, with whom thou hast summoned me, open to me the gate of the life permanable, and lead me to the feast of thy well and best dressed meats.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • Christ, wise and hardy, which be come to the victory and now go aback, and for a few blandishing words vain and miserable, ye will lose the victory permanable, lose ye not the everlasting life for the blandishing words of women, be ye example to other christian men for to be strong in the faith, address ye your hearts above the world, and lose ye not your crown for the weepings of your wives and your children.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • Father wilt thou receive this hostie without tache or spot, the which I, thy servant unworthy, offer to thee as to my God, very and certain, for all the sins that I have done without number, and also for all them that are here about me, and for all the fiables of God that are alive, and for all them that are passed out of this world to the intent that this oblation may be profitable to me and to them, to the salvation of our souls in the life permanable or everlasting.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

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