lastingness
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Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
For American originalists, in particular, Magna Carta has a special lastingness.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
Mystery is part of his beauty and his lastingness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2014
From this it is clear that the word "habit" implies a certain lastingness: while the word "disposition" does not.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls"—big lumps of the most delicious lastingness.
From John Barleycorn by Jack London
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