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Lasting

adjective

Continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place. Synonym: permanent. "Permanent address" , "Literature of permanent value"

Existing for a long time. Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived. "A long-lasting friendship"

Retained; not shed. Synonym: persistent. "The persistent gills of fishes"

Lasting a long time without change.

Last

verb

(past & past part. lasted; pres. part. lasting)

Persist for a specified period of time. Synonym: endure.

Continue to live through hardship or adversity. Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive. "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" , "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" , "How long can a person last without food and water?"

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"Lasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... much it may have been disgusting and terrifying to the Council at the time, and though the intention of the entry upon the records was obviously for the purpose of preventing such horrid cruelties in future, had no lasting effect on the course of justice, as the severities against witches were most unhappily still considered necessary. Through the whole of the sixteenth, and the greater part of the seventeenth century, little abatement in the persecution of this metaphysical crime ...

— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott

... that coarse personality was the refuge of weak-minded people when they could not answer arguments, and that, for her part, she would never take the trouble to say another plain, straightforward word for his good; whereupon there would be a truce, lasting sometimes a ...

— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton

... they gazed upon the new star, insensibly they became comforted. Whatever this prodigy foretold, it could not be an omen of lasting evil. Had they not seen for themselves that, even in the worst of worlds, righteousness and justice and truth had been something more than names. Doom had fallen; for more than a twelvemonth the ruins had smouldered, and to-day they were but the harmless ...

— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen

... you will have the choice of good or bad reading, and as reading has such a lasting effect on the mind, you should try to read only good things. If you find that you are tempted by reading rubbish, it is easy to stop doing so. Once you know what your fault is you can fight it squarely. Ruskin says, "All your ...

— How Girls Can Help Their Country • Juliette Low

... makes address at opening of Parliament in Paris, declaring that the war will end only with restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, restoration of Belgium, and assurance of lasting peace. ...

— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

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