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

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 house is surrounded by 200 rosebushes, all tended by a very tall gardener with thorn scratches on his hands and a look of perdurable tweed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fact that Elizabethan poor laws were based on the best-approved parish customs made them perdurable.

From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Ware, Sedley Lynch