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‘bell music has perdured in Venice throughout five centuries’
‘This belief has perdured without question in the Catholic Church to this day, and is repeated almost verbatim in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.’
‘Certainly the romance of the Tortured Genius has perdured in modern Western art.’
‘While remnant systems perdured, the game was up for all of them - they were no longer alternatives to the dominant and victorious paradigm.’
‘Even worse is the widespread impression that Science produces as an output a generic ‘thing’ which perdures through time, be it called ‘knowledge’ or ‘information’ or epistemic virtue.’
‘The older nexus between self-improvement and traditional morality perdures as an undiminished factor in their worldview.’
Origin
Late 15th century: from Old French perdurer, from Latin perdurare ‘endure’, from per- ‘through’ + durare ‘to last’.