permanency

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

Sharing such a personal part of your life online can sometimes come with anxiety - something Seidman believes is down to a fear of online permanency.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

To say that I alone can do virtually anything suggests a degree of permanency, perhaps even supernatural power.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

“These folks have already been through so much and it’s frankly embarrassing that we can’t figure out how to give them the permanency that they’ve earned.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

It was even harder this time because the girls were getting older and they wanted some sense of permanency and continuity in their lives.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Wilson, John Lyde

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 Nadin, Mihai

The man of sense is the visionary or illusionist, fancying things as permanencies, and thoughts as fleeting phantoms.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

An old Englishwoman completed our list of permanencies.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen