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the property of being resistant to decay

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Usage examples (15)
  • Christianity upon the imperishableness of poverty, and upon the duties corresponding to it.
  • The same account holds good for imperishableness also; for both are attributes which are present of necessity.
  • No! the supposition of imperishableness is always with him; else there would hang always before his soul, as before Mahomet's in the fairest sky, a dark cloud; and, as...
  • Beneath the social mortality, we feel human imperishableness.
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