durativeadj.

1889 W. R. Morfill Gram. Russ. Lang. 40 Durative verbs on taking a prefix become perfective.

1895 P. Giles Short Man. Compar. Philol. §545 When present and aorist are found in the same verb [in Greek], the former is the durative, the latter the perfective or momentary form.

1904 Expositor 6th Ser. X. 360 In οἱ ἀπολλύμενοι, strongly durative though the verb is, we see its perfectivity in the fact that the goal is ideally reached.

1904 Expositor 6th Ser. X. 361 Ἀγωνίζεσθαι is only used in the durative present.

1904 Expositor 6th Ser. X. 444 The effective aorist κατήντησαν is very different from a durative like ἐπορεύοντο.

1912 J. Wright Compar. Gram. Greek Lang. §424 (2) An action is said to be cursive, durative or imperfective when it denotes continuous action without any reference to its beginning or end, as in English I am striking compared with I strike.

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. xx. 286 It is generally assumed that our Aryan languages had at first no real forms in their verbs for tense-distinctions, but denoted various aspects, perfective, imperfective, punctual, durative, inceptive, or others.

1932 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 31 251 The durative aspect indicates duration: ‘He is working in the garden.’

1935 G. O. Curme Gram. Eng. Lang. II. xii. 237 In duratives, ingressives, effectives..the present participle represents the act as incomplete.

1957 Ess. in Crit. 7 121 Je vais is not quite the same as the durative present ‘I am going’.

1921 H. Poutsma Characters of Eng. Verb 5 Iterative..distinguished into..duratively iterative.

1904 Expositor 6th Ser. X. 441 Other futural presents..have no lack of durativity about them.