lastingness

Example Sentences

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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

And they had never been able to relax in the reassuring sense of the lastingness of their love.

From Fidelity A Novel by Glaspell, Susan