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
He would now then give them the young Giant's good health; they would drink, if they pleased, Perpetuity to the Premises, and Success to Sulphuretted Hydrogen and Ammonia.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Perpetuity, or duration till the end of time, is one of the most striking marks of the Church.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
It begins, "If any magistrate, after having concluded a public work, put his name rather than that of Our Perpetuity, let him be judged guilty of high-treason."
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
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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