perdurable
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The specter of this guilt -- this perdurable archetype of the hostile homecoming -- animates today’s encounters, which seem to have swung to the other unthinking extreme.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 2, 2011
With self-imposed fortitude, Sechele shout-sings the hymnal verses, "Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising/ Give me joy in my heart, I pray," as if he were the trumpet of perdurable faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Protected in their green river valley by the desert's barriers, the ancient Egyptians constructed perdurable institutions, of which the pyramids remain as awesome symbols.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is more interested in the use of things to give him the good life than in the possession of perdurable objects that will reassure him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Duke had given her already a horde of fine gifts; but these, he had said, were nothing—trash in comparison with the gift that was to ensure for her a perdurable felicity.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
