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Definition of Perdured
1. perdure [v] - See also: perdure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perdured
Literary usage of Perdured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In both the Old and the New Netherland, the people were in the Church and perdured
through all changes. It is beyond all controversy that it was the Dutch ..."
2. The Moth Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Moths of North America by William Jacob Holland (1903)
"I have reared a number of specimens in which the green color perdured to the time
of pupation, though the brown form is very common. ..."
3. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Down to the end of the middle ages a few old English terms perdured which, at
least as technical terms, we have since lost: English ' domes- men ' might ..."
4. Political Theories of the Middle Age by Otto Friedrich von Gierke, Frederic William Maitland (1900)
"_ Subjection, were unable to avoid the recognition of a right against the Ruler
which still perdured in the Body of the People. Even they were compelled to ..."
5. The Old Colonial System, 1660-1754 by George Louis Beer (1913)
"Traces of this principle still perdured during that period ; and, despite the
non-existence of any positive prohibition, the shipment of colonial products ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"The only thing which has perdured is a habit or tendency to reproduce it.
This habit may be explained psychologically as a mental habit, or physiologically ..."
7. American City Government by Charles Austin Beard (1912)
"The attitude toward public control, which was natural enough under the conditions
just described, has perdured, although the vast majority of the people in ..."
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