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adjective

Lasting adj. Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

Synonyms: Durable; permanent; undecaying; perpetual; unending. Lasting, Permanent, Durable. Lasting commonly means merely continuing in existence; permanent carries the idea of continuing in the same state, position, or course; durable means lasting in spite of agencies which tend to destroy.

verb

Last v. t. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.

Last v. i. (past & past part. lasted; pres. part. lasting)

To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence. "(I) proffered me to be slave in all that she me would ordain while my life lasted."

To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.

noun

Lasting n.

Continuance; endurance.

A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women's shoes; everlasting.

The act or process of shaping on a last.

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Etymology of 'Lasting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... best, over-rated my passion for literature, and praised me to raise the value of those talents with which they were endowed. But in the esteem of wise men I stand very low, and their esteem alone is the true measure of glory. Nothing, I perceive, can give the mind a lasting joy but the consciousness of having performed our duty in that station which it has pleased the Divine Providence to assign to us. The glory of virtue is solid and eternal. All other will fade away like a thin vapoury cloud, on which the casual glance of some faint beams of light has ...

— Dialogues of the Dead • Lord Lyttelton

... we had bathed and finished our scanty meal, I took the bearings of D'Urban's Group, and found them to be S.58 E. about thirty-three miles distant; and as we mounted our horses, I named the river the "Darling," as a lasting memorial of the respect I bear ...

— A Source Book Of Australian History • Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne

... of liking a fellow would be a slow kind of a way, after all." That was the gist of his thought about it; and I believe that to many very young men, at the age of waxed moustaches and German dancing, that "slow kind of a way" in a girl is the best possible insurance against any lasting damage that their own enthusiasm ...

— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... A WOMAN. — AMOROSO. Lovely, lasting Peace below, Comforter of every woe, Heav'nly born, and bred on high, To crown the favourites of the sky — 115 Lovely, lasting Peace, appear; This world itself, if thou art here, Is once again with Eden blest, And man contains it in ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith

... caused by this opera. They had witnessed the production, indeed, of great masterpieces, which it would be almost sacrilegious to mention in the same breath with Mascagni's turbulent and torrential tragedy, but these works were the productions of mature masters, from whom things monumental and lasting were expected as a matter of course; men like Wagner and Verdi. The generations had also seen the coming of "Carmen" and gradually opened their minds to an appreciation of its meaning and beauty, while the youthful genius who had created it sank almost unnoticed into his grave; but they ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

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