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

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

But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history.

From Time Magazine Archive

Glenn Ford, 61, perdurable, softspoken, intense Hollywood leading man, and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his three-year flame.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was something perdurable in them as well as in her gaunt, sinewy frame.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various