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
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
Perpetuity of the Church, 50; defined, 50; foretold in the Scriptures, 50.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
As a Cornell sophomore, he was the class poet; as a senior, its historian; and on commencement day delivered an oration on "The Perpetuity of the Heroic Element."
From Edison's Conquest of Mars by Serviss, Garrett Putman
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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