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Permanent

adjective

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

Not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition.

noun

A series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals. Synonyms: perm, permanent wave.

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"Permanent" Quotes from Famous Books

... can never quite think that is so. This time, surely, it is different. This time may indeed be the beginning of a permanent change; this time there are new elements, new methods and a new spirit at work upon construction that the world has never known before. Mankind may be now in the dawn of a fresh phase of living altogether. It is possible. The forces of construction are proportionally gigantic. There was never ...

— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells

... factor to be noted in this, and in similar cases, is that the successful response to a baffling situation is acquired, and that this acquisition remains a more or less permanent possession of the human or animal organism. Particularly important for the problem and practice of education is the mechanism by which these learned modes of behavior are acquired. For, to attain skill, ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... later religious movement asked the same question on the eve of another contest which would either regenerate or destroy the English Church. The impulse given by Newman and the Tractarians had spent itself, though not without enormous and permanent results within the life of the nation; and now it was the turn of that Liberal reaction and recoil which had effaced Newman's work in Oxford, yet had been itself wandering for years without a spiritual home. During those years it had found its way through innumerable channels of the national ...

— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... Gaul providing the permanent and enduring example of that culture which survived when the Roman system fell into decay. Gaul led to Britain. The Iberian Peninsula, after the hardest struggle which any territory had presented, was also incorporated. By the close of the first century after the Incarnation, when the Catholic ...

— Europe and the Faith - "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" • Hilaire Belloc

... on again. At Polchester, too, they'll be having cheap lectures in the Town-Hall and Shakespeare Readings and High-School Prize-givings.... Where's the Connexion between That and This? Where's the permanent thing in us that goes on whatever life may do to us? Is life still beautiful and noble in spite of whatever man may do with it, or is Semyonov right and there is no meaning in my love for Marie, nothing real and true except the things we see with our eyes, hear with our ears? Is Semyonov right, ...

— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole

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