Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.
1 The lastingness of furniture under fair treatment is astonishing.
2 For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls"-biglumps of the most delicious lastingness .
3 Because I have still undiminished confidence in the real lastingness of the bond between John and me.
4 The sense of lastingness was gone from her and every moment with Harney would now be ringed with doubt.
5 From this it is clear that the word "habit" implies a certain lastingness : while the word "disposition" does not.
6 Perhaps our feelings obey the laws of nature as to the lastingness of her creations; to a long life a long childhood.
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.
8 "That's true." His voice was mossy and opaque; it had this lastingness , this abidingness.
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