lastingness

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Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023

For American originalists, in particular, Magna Carta has a special lastingness.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

Mystery is part of his beauty and his lastingness.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2014

For four centuries, at least, that self-same dial had marked the hour in that self-same spot, a silent commentary on the briefness of human existence, as compared with its own strange non- sentient lastingness.

From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie

His work has one message and one only, the lastingness of beauty and its supreme truth.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)