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permanently, adv.|ˈpɜːmənəntlɪ| [f. permanent a. (n.) + -ly2.] In a permanent manner; so as to last or continue; lastingly, enduringly; ‘for good’.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Pref. ii. in Ashm. Theat. Chem. Brit. (1652) 127 That Mercury teynyth permanently. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lxxviii. 145 The feare heeld not permanentlie. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. i. i. xiv. 48 That Law which is writ in our hearts by the finger of God, durably and permanently. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xx. 371 The changes of colour, in permanently⁓coloured bodies. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. iv. 196 In volcanic districts the water is often even at the boiling⁓point, and remains so permanently. 1885Geol. Mag. Decade III. II. 516 On the depth of the permanently frozen stratum of soil in British North America. 1903G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iii. 103 With such a majority as mine I cannot be kept permanently out of office. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria) 18 Mar. 9/4 (Advt.), Ladies come and have your hair permanently waved... We have the latest machines and are expert in the art. 1929A. Noyes Return of Scare-Crow i. 11 There were pictures of permanently waved young women, with carefully arranged flowers in their hair. 1930J. Cannan No Walls of Jasper 192 She stood..with..the sun in her eyes, and the wind in her permanently-waved hair. 1959Housewife June 46 Shirt and permanently-pleated skirt. 1962Guardian 15 Jan. 4/4 Drip-dry, uncrushable, and permanently pleatable cottons. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 105 A new permanently-coupled articulated flat car developed by Union Pacific. 1975G. Howell In Vogue 208/2 Nylon transformed the fifties wardrobe..the fake furs and the permanently pleated nightdresses. So ˈpermanentness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |