perpetuity
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Perpetuity, should it win the day, belongs only to the curse.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 20, 2019
Said Rockefeller: "Perpetuity is a pretty long time."
From Time Magazine Archive
Perpetuity of the Church, 50; defined, 50; foretold in the Scriptures, 50.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
It begins, "If any magistrate, after having concluded a public work, put his name rather than that of Our Perpetuity, let him be judged guilty of high-treason."
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
Perpetuity of the Union, danger to, foreshadowed, 185.
From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson
Vocabulary lists containing perpetuity
Vocabulary from the Magna Carta on its 800th Anniversary
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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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