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

From this it is clear that the word "habit" implies a certain lastingness: while the word "disposition" does not.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Perhaps our feelings obey the laws of nature as to the lastingness of her creations; to a long life a long childhood.

From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott