PERPETUAL
\pəpˈɛt͡ʃuːə͡l], \pəpˈɛtʃuːəl], \p_ə_p_ˈɛ_tʃ_uː_əl]\
Definitions of PERPETUAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
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uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"
By Princeton University
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Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.
By Oddity Software
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Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.
By Noah Webster.
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Neverceasing; everlasting; as, perpetual motion.
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Perpetually.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Perpetually.
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Never ceasing: everlasting: not temporary.
By Daniel Lyons
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Perpetually.
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Continuing without ceasing; incessant; ceaseless; endless.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Never ceasing; everlasting.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Continuing for ever; continuing without ceasing; permanent. Perpetual curacy, one where all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage endowed. Perpetual motion, a motion which is renewed from itself, without other intervention.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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