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perdure, v.|pəˈdjʊə(r)|
[a. obs. F. par-, perdurer, ad. L. perdūrāre, f. per- 2 + dūrāre to harden, endure, f. dūrus hard.]
intr. To continue, endure, last on.
c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 254 Ȝe wole not redresse Be mowthe ȝour dedys mortal but therin don perdure. 1590Greenwood Answ. Def. Read Prayers 27 Yt was the chief part of their office, to perdure in the worde and prayer. 1854Hickok Mental Philos. 76 The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a thousand lines. 1963J. Wiesenfarth Henry James iv. 91 The romp of Aggie and Petherton perdures through the conversation. 1973Boilès & Horcasitas tr. M. León-Portilla's Time & Reality in Thought of Maya ii. 33 For longer than a millennium and a half, not a little of Maya symbolism has perdured. 1979Nature 22 Mar. 348/1 Thus enough maternal gene products (mRNAs or proteins) may perdure in embryonic cells to allow normal segmentation and cuticular differentiation.
Hence perˈduring ppl. a., lasting, enduring continuously.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. Epil. 6 Thy Maiestie mot haue eternallie..Felicitie perdurand in this eird. a1600Flodden F. vii. (1664) 68 And in perduring peace remain. 1890J. Skinner Dissert. Metaphysics 109 The Soul is revealed intuitively as a perduring living agent or entity. 1951C. Kluckhorn et al. in Parsons & Shils Toward Gen. Theory Action iv. 399 A value or values restrain or canalize impulses in terms of wider and more perduring goals. 1977Dædalus Summer 63 The assignment and reassignment of meaning must be investigated as processes in the domain of resilience possessed by each population recognizing itself to be culturally perduring. |