perpetuity
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Perpetuity, should it win the day, belongs only to the curse.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 20, 2019
Said Rockefeller: "Perpetuity is a pretty long time."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Perpetuity of the Union, danger to, foreshadowed, 185.
From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson
The central idea of the pamphlet, and practically its backbone, is One and the same Parliament in Perpetuity or Membership for Life.
From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David
The principal marks or characteristics of the true Church are, her Unity, Sanctity, Catholicity, and Apostolicity,15 to which may be added the Infallibility of her teaching and the Perpetuity of her existence.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
Vocabulary lists containing perpetuity
Vocabulary from the Magna Carta on its 800th Anniversary
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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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