A permanent state or condition. Chiefly in phrase in good (quiet,etc.) stay. Obsolete.

The quality or condition of being fixed in various senses. Of material things: Immobility, steadiness of position, stillness, permanence.

gen. The condition of not being liable to displacement or change; stability or permanence in situation, condition, or form.

In physical senses. Of a system of bodies: Permanence of arrangement; power of resisting change of structure.

The state of being stationary (in various senses); stationariness; constancy; (Mathematics) the property of neither increasing nor decreasing (cf…