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imperishable

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[ UK /ɪmpˈɛɹɪʃəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lasting a long time
    an abiding belief
    imperishable truths
  2. not perishable

How To Use imperishable In A Sentence

  • For be it known: _That man of us is imperishable who makes his century imperishable_. Revolution, and Other Essays
  • It acts as intermediary between the divine and imperishable mens and the material and perishable idolum. Loss of Faith
  • For what is accidental is capable of not being present, but perishableness is one of the attributes that belong of necessity to the things to which they belong; or else one and the same thing may be perishable and imperishable, if perishableness is capable of not belonging to it. Metaphysics
  • Everything looked promising with his first US movie, the imperishable Cape Fear, with Gregory Peck and an animalistic Robert Mitchum.
  • The hand that wrote them is in the dust, but the sentiments they embody and the wish they breathe are imperishable and will be perpetuated in the enduring monument for which this solid resting-place is preparing.
  • In the mid-eighteenth century a desire to praise famous men, especially writers and philosophers, in imperishable marble or bronze, manifested itself in all parts of Europe.
  • And on that monument, as all know, is inscribed in imperishable bronze the prophecy and the fulfilment: ALL WILL BE JOY-SMITHS, AND Goliah
  • It will be to the imperishable credit of the United States if this monument shall be set up within her borders; moreover, it will be a peculiar grace to the beneficiary if this testimonial of affection and gratitude shall be the gift of the youngest of the nations that have sprung from his loins after 6,000 years of unappreciation on the part of its elders. Mark Twain: A Biography
  • The old rugged cross is not venerable because it is old - that is, because of a traditional or historical meaning - but because the truth it embodies is imperishable.
  • He ought to have remembered that, from the earliest achievement in which he displayed that military genius which has placed him foremost in the annals of modern warfare, down to that last and surpassing combat which has made his name imperishable—from Assaye to Waterloo—the Irish soldiers, with whom your armies are filled, were the inseparable auxiliaries to the glory with which his unparalleled successes have been crowned. I. On the Irish as "Aliens"
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