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adjective

Lasting adj. Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

Synonyms: Durable; permanent; undecaying; perpetual; unending. Lasting, Permanent, Durable. Lasting commonly means merely continuing in existence; permanent carries the idea of continuing in the same state, position, or course; durable means lasting in spite of agencies which tend to destroy.

verb

Last v. t. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.

Last v. i. (past & past part. lasted; pres. part. lasting)

To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence. "(I) proffered me to be slave in all that she me would ordain while my life lasted."

To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.

noun

Lasting n.

Continuance; endurance.

A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women's shoes; everlasting.

The act or process of shaping on a last.

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Etymology of 'Lasting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... long-lasting is the association of ideas, I will state that years, many years afterward, I met a gentleman who had been in the auditorium that night, and he told me he had never since seen a blanket shawl, whether in store for sale or on some broad back, ...

— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris

... such a thing,—but I am not seeking the love of a lover,—that I know is impossible. But Love,—that most god-like of all emotions, has many phases, and a merely sexual attraction is the least and worst part of the divine passion. There is a higher form,—one far more lasting and perfect, in which Self has very little part,—and though I cannot give it a name, I am ...

— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli

... disease me overtook, And sever'd from my sightless master's side. But lest the grace of so good deeds should die. Through tract of years in mute oblivion lost, This slender tomb of turf hath Irus reared, Cheap monument of no ungrudging hand, And with short verse inscribed it, to attest, In long and lasting union to attest, The virtues of the ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... ceasing after the end had been attained, or missed, or when tribal jealousies forbade further common effort. Sometimes tribes joined to form one larger tribe; the union being either forced on a weaker by a stronger tribe, or caused by a desire to secure a strength greater and more lasting than mere ...

— The Navy as a Fighting Machine • Bradley A. Fiske

... Indian quarrels. Between the Five Nations of New York and the Hurons and their allies, the Algonquins of the St. Lawrence, perpetual war prevailed, and Champlain by taking sides against the former incurred for the French the lasting ...

— England in America, 1580-1652 • Lyon Gardiner Tyler

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