perdurable

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The specter of this guilt -- this perdurable archetype of the hostile homecoming -- animates today’s encounters, which seem to have swung to the other unthinking extreme.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 2, 2011

But the steady gleam of the picture is the inimitable, jug-eared, perdurable Clark Gable, 45, back from the wars and still going strong.

From Time Magazine Archive

Protected in their green river valley by the desert's barriers, the ancient Egyptians constructed perdurable institutions, of which the pyramids remain as awesome symbols.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is more interested in the use of things to give him the good life than in the possession of perdurable objects that will reassure him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Moors had built upon it and characterized it, but had not so masked it as to hide the perdurable physiognomy of the Roman work.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean