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Meanings of lastingness in English

Portuguese
durabilidade

Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.

        durabilidade
        Usage of lastingness in English
        1
        The lastingness of furniture under fair treatment is astonishing.
        The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
        2
        For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls"-biglumps of the most delicious lastingness.
        John Barleycorn
        3
        Because I have still undiminished confidence in the real lastingness of the bond between John and me.
        Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
        4
        The sense of lastingness was gone from her and every moment with Harney would now be ringed with doubt.
        Summer
        5
        From this it is clear that the word "habit" implies a certain lastingness: while the word "disposition" does not.
        Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
        6
        Perhaps our feelings obey the laws of nature as to the lastingness of her creations; to a long life a long childhood.
        Ursula
        7
        The intercession of Christ, and the lastingness of it, is a sure token of the salvation of them that come unto God by him.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
        8
        "That's true." His voice was mossy and opaque; it had this lastingness, this abidingness.
        Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
        Translations for lastingness
        Portuguese
        durabilidade
        Lastingness through the time