Perpetual
[pə'petʃʊəl;-tjʊəl] or [pɚ'pɛtʃuəl]
Definition
(a.) Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Endless, unending, everlasting, eternal, ever-during, ceaseless, continual, incessant, unintermitted, uninterrupted, constant, interminable, perennial.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Constant, unceasing, endless, eternal, everlasting, unfailing, perennial,continual, enduring, incessant, uninterrupted
ANT:Inconstant, periodic, recurrent, temporary, transient, falling, exhaustible,occasional, momentary, casual
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Definition
adj. never ceasing: everlasting: not temporary.—adv. Perpet′ually.—Perpetual curate a curate of a parish where there was neither rector nor vicar the tithes being in the hands of a layman—abolished in 1868 every incumbent not a rector now being a vicar; Perpetual motion motion of a machine arising from forces within itself constantly kept up without any force from without; Perpetual screw an endless screw.
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Examples
- Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The perpetual allotment and destination of this fund, indeed, is not always guarded by any positive law, by any trust-right or deed of mortmain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Jesuit accounts describe a country greatly devastated by perpetual feudal war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perpetual fretting at length threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is now at peace for ever. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- That would be a perpetual interest. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The have-his-carcass, next to the perpetual motion, is vun of the blessedest things as wos ever made. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If so Mr. Edison has discovered something MORE than perpetual motion, and Mr. Keely had better retire from the field. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The multiplicity of its appeals--the perpetual surprise of its contrasts and resemblances! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The burning rivers of oil were a reflection of the golden treasures which flowed into the hands and pockets of thousands as from a perpetual fountain touched by some great magician's wand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She rubs everything that can be rubbed, until it shines, like her own honest forehead, with perpetual friction. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Who have found out the perpetual stoppage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Some, if revived now and put to use, would throw proposed flying machines into the background, as they involved perpetual motion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The bare anticipation of seeing that dear face, and hearing that well-known voice to-morrow, keeps me in a perpetual fever of excitement. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The key to German historical teaching is to be found in Count Moltke's dictum: Perpetual peace is a dream, and it is not even a beautiful dream. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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