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lastingness|ˈlɑːstɪŋnɪs, ˈlæst-|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being lasting; continuance, duration, permanence. Also, durability, † constancy, perseverance.
a1340Hampole Psalter ii. 7 Þe lastandnes of god euer⁓mare is all at ans. c1440Jacob's Well 289 Lastyngnes fayleth noȝt in wele ne wo tyl þe lyues ende. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1319 Pees is in hewyn, with blyss and lestandnas. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1590) 8 The consideration of the exceeding lastingnesse. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 36 Though the heart be the box of love, the memory is the box of lastingnes. 1670Clarendon Contempl. Ps. in Tracts (1727) 621 The lastingness of anything adds very much to the esteem of it. 1704Newton Optics iii. i. (1721) 322 The lastingness of the Motions excited in the bottom of the Eye by Light. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 10 The solidity and lastingness of the Work. 1820Examiner No. 650. 609/1 It was all over with them, as to any real tenure of empire, any lastingness of dictation. 1851C. Fox Jrnl. (1882) II. 160 The lastingness of an individual conviction is with him a pledge of its truth. 1885Pater Marius II. 19 Anxious to try the lastingness of his own Epicurean rose-garden. |