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n. - The property of being extremely durable.

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  • (Some of Rosen's own prose owes much of its own perdurability to its essayistic qualities, that is, to its partisanship and unfairness: one example might be Rosen's...
  • The anniversary is observed, that they come from the years of calamity and maleurty unto the years of perdurability.
  • And the foundament of this temple was cast round by a sphere, that by this form the perdurability of their gods should be showed.
  • Of the third, S. Bernard saith: Three things there be that make the death of saints precious, rest of travail, joy of novelty, surety of perdurability.
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