permanency
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It said that allowing them to be revoked "based simply on welfare" could undermine their permanency.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin observed in 1815 that the people “are more Americans; they feel and act more as a nation; and I hope that the permanency of the Union is thereby better secured.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
To say that I alone can do virtually anything suggests a degree of permanency, perhaps even supernatural power.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
“To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable,” Washington wrote.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
He had said “always” to convince her, assure her, of permanency.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But I cannot propose that she should live permanently with me because all future permanencies have been taken out of my hands.
From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
When deterioration occurs in the conditions that make literacy possible and necessary, many of the permanencies associated with literacy, including the interpersonal relations adapted to it, or the homogeneity of nations, fail.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
It is the business and the art of life to degrade permanencies.
From Here are Ladies by James Stephens
Is it because 'tis unsubstantial all—senseless, though fair—and in its evanescence unsuited to the sympathies that yearn for the permanencies of breathing life?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson