abidingnessn.
/əˈbʌɪdɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /əˈbaɪdɪŋnᵻs/ Permanence, lasting quality, capacity for enduring.
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time
lenghc888
longnessOE
enduringc1374
length1388
continuing1398
long lasting?c1400
perdurability?a1425
perseverance?a1425
permanence1440
perdurablenessc1450
perdurationc1450
continuation1469
diuturnity?a1475
prolixityc1500
endurancea1513
sustention1515
continuance1552
long standinga1568
longitude1596
long-lastingness1598
sempiternity1599
consistence1606
persistence1621
long-livedness1652
abidingness1654
productedness1664
imperdibility1713
longiturnity1727
endurableness1795
lengthiness1829
endurability1837
perenniality1841
longevity1842
protractedness1855
enduringnessa1867
1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Persev. iii. 83 The Purpose of God is here called his Foundation, because of its Stability, Abidingnesse, Strength, and Vse in bearing up the whole Fabricke of the Salvation of Believers.
1721 R. Fern Treat. Celestial Work & Worship vi. 237 As the Apostle gives the Preheminence to Grace, upon Account of the Continuance and Abidingness of it, [etc.].
c1828 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1992) III. 39 A strong presumption of the abidingness of the Soul.
1857 J. H. Newman Serm. Var. Occasions ix. 163 The world..discerns and recognizes her abidingness, her unchangeableness.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 503/2 His [sc. Zechariah's] book opens..contrasting the transitoriness of all human things..with the abidingness of the word of God.
1920 E. I. Watkin in C. Hess God & Supernatural v. 142 The abidingness in another form of the positive value of noble pain.
1946 G. Vann Divine Pity iii. 23 Conscious of their abidingness in his unchanging eternity.
2002 Jrnl. World Hist. (Nexis) 22 Sept. The history of Indo-European berserks shows the abidingness of their warrior style over more than two and a half thousand years.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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