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

The sense of lastingness was gone from her and every moment with Harney would now be ringed with doubt.

From Summer by Wharton, Edith

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