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

The New York Herald: "By far the finest and most perdurable novel in English that has as yet come out of the War."

From Time Magazine Archive

Ford agrees about the need for a perdurable relationship, advocating periodic 15-minute visits to the physician by somatizers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

His own love was perdurable; how could it other than intensify when its object was so unhappy?

From The Nether World by Gissing, George