单词 | permanence |
释义 | permanencen. 1. The action, fact, or state of lasting or remaining; continued or enduring existence or duration; continuation, persistence. 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 1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 228 Alle þing þat is here schal fall adown..schal fayle of permanens. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 215 Assiduite of feyntenesse longethe to a man, impossibilite of permanence [L. impossibilitas permanendi], lyȝtenes to falle, difficulte to aryse, disease to lyve, ane necessite to dye. 1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. A2v Hov kyngis hes no erthlie Permanence. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 16 She bare him some prety children..: But alasse it had to sleight a permanence, for no sooner were three yeares past, then this vaine florish became frutles. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 213 Which place is manifest for the permanence of Evill Angels. 1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 2 Memory cannot be, without permanence of the thing perceived. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. x. 194 Few examples can be produc'd of the real and unfeign'd Permanence of the one [sc. true love], when the other [sc. esteem] wholly ceases to exist. 1790 A. Alison Ess. on Nature & Princ. Taste. 295 The permanence of poetical Models..even from no other cause than their antiquity. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 111 The permanence of the snow..is partly due to the floating ice. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xiv. 190 He is a noble fellow; and..not one to be injured in permanence by a shock. a1925 H. T. Lane Talks to Parents & Teachers (1928) iii. 91 Unsatisfied desire results in permanence of the desire. 1989 S. Peele Diseasing of Amer. i. 26 Ubiquity and permanence mark the new diseases. 2. The quality of being permanent; durability, lastingness, permanency. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] durabilityc1374 duringc1374 lastingnessa1398 perdurance1508 permanence1509 durancea1513 permanency1555 durableness1587 indeficiency1614 duration1637 durancy1647 indelibleness1655 unfailingnessa1656 undissolution1662 permanentness1727 persistency1833 out-take1866 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxxxvv In all thynges that to men apertayne Is no constance..Nor sure degre, or stable permanence [L. perstabilis ve gradus]. 1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxiii. 25 My Sleifis wer of to borrow and len glaidlie; My Lais and Mailzies of trew permanence. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iii. 73 That hath or may have such a kind of permanence or fixedness in being. 1724 M. Concanen Misc. Poems 98 Men, surpriz'd, shall..thence the Meanness of our Nature see, Since Shadows boast more Permanence than we. 1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. viii. 171 With respect to all kinds of Qualities..there is one thing to be observed, that some degree of Permanence is always requisite. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. vi. 126 Incline her to a juster estimate of the value of that home of greater permanence, and equal comfort, of which she had the offer. View more context for this quotation 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 223 The essential quality of a monument is permanence. 1913 W. Cather O Pioneers! i. i. 3 None of them had any appearance of permanence, and the howling wind blew under them as well as over them. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxii. 440 The use of weed-killers such as waste crank-case oil, emulsified diesel oil.., etc., do the job cheaply and with some degree of permanence. 1990 Artist's & Illustrator's Mag. May 41/1 Many of the colours offer a good degree of permanence and those that do not are clearly marked. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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