单词 | perduration |
释义 | perdurationn. The action of enduring or capacity to endure indefinitely; continuous duration; existence having neither beginning nor end.In quot. 1945 app: an interminable oration. ΘΚΠ 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 c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 115 (MED) If þou woldest weie..The tyme of all þi fame..Yit schuldest þou fynde no proporcioun Aȝenst the eternall perduracioun [L. interminabilem diuturnitatem] Þat euer haþ be and neuer schal ende. 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. ss.iiiv Almyghty god..hauynge euerlastynge perduracyon, withoute begynnynge, withoute ende. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 116 To multiply the torments of helfire upon any Devil, unto immensity of weight and Infinity of Perduration. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Perduration,..a lasting very long. 1800 B. Moseley Med. Tracts viii. 268 The [prison] diet is ingeniously contrived for the perduration of punishment. 1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 18 286 Happily such perduration of good or ill can be inflicted only in a fairy tale. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 191 The chamber might sit in a stunned, if unprecedented, silence listening to Jules Favre's brass-voiced perdurations. 1985 Amer. Hist. Rev. 90 799/2 Capitalistic development and ‘modernization’ accompanied by the perduration of a landed, commercial elite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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