| 单词 | in perpetuity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (also for, †to) perpetuity a. in (also for, †to) perpetuity: for all time, for ever; for an unlimited or indefinitely long period. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb] always fortha700 alwayeOE oeOE everOE buten endea1000 echelichec1175 till doomsdayc1175 to timea1200 perdurablyc1275 in ayea1300 without endc1330 anytimea1375 for ay and oc1374 continually1382 perpetuallyc1385 ay-forthc1390 everlastinglyc1390 perpetualc1392 eternallyc1393 endlessa1400 in (also for, to) perpetuitya1400 always?c1425 without timec1425 endlesslya1450 sempiternlyc1450 infinitivec1470 aylastinglyc1475 everlastingc1475 incessantly1481 in saecula saeculorum1481 sempiternally1509 all days1533 for altogether1542 constantly1567 interminate?1567 incorruptibly1579 perpetuously1612 in perpetuum1613 eternal1614 unterminably1631 unfadinglya1672 unendingly1674 for a constancy1710 perennially1729 tarnally1790 imperishably1795 indefectibly1837 immortally1858 fadelessly1861 a1400 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 62 (MED) Men shulden be war..þat þai [sc. priests] be not en-erited as in perpetuyte, but vp-on trewe lyuyng, hauyng godis in mesure. 1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 28/2 To endure to the next Parlement, and so forth in perpetuite. a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum 540 in Poems (1899) 66 The worlde is [not] in perpetuite, Therfore, for to do wele, make no delay. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xliiii The chaplayne..may charge the chauntry with a rent charge in perpetuyte. 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox iv. 226 There to continue to perpetuity, under pain of beeing Hanged if ever they returned. 1717 C. Bullock Woman is Riddle iv. 45 I cou'd contemplate on these lines to perpetuity. 1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. xiii. 316 The Benefit that our Commerce may receive by the Prevention of additional Taxes to Perpetuity. 1802 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) III. 473 His Highness..hereby assigns and cedes in perpetuity to the Honorable East India Company, all the territories detailed. 1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised ii. 69 We have here a plant which is self-fertilized for perpetuity. 1926 Spectator 24 July 130/1 The land and buildings shall be used in perpetuity as ‘home-crofts’. 1992 Financial Times 22 Feb. 8/3 If the Afrikaner cedes power now, he will still be left with enough influence to protect Afrikanerdom in perpetuity. < as lemmas |
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