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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

perdure en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /pəˈdjʊə̯/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /pəˈdjɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /pɚˈdɚ/ (General-American)
  • /pɚˈdʊɹ/ (General-American)
  • /pəˈd͡ʒɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /pɜː-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /pəˈd͡ʒʊə̯/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To continue to exist, last or endure, especially for a great length of time.
    • Saying that a trait has an evolutionary history is to say something stronger than the fact that it has perdured across generations. Humans have probably believed that water is wet for a very long time, although this belief has no evolutionary history. 2008 July 11, Edouard Machery, “A Plea for Human Nature”, in Philosophical Psychology, volume 21, number 3, London: Routledge, →DOI, page 327:
  2. (intransitive) To exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
perduring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
perdured Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
perdured Tense=Past lexicographic
perdures Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

perdurability · perduringly