perdure
See also: perduré
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈd͡ʒʊə̯/, /pəˈd͡ʒɔː/, /pəˈdjʊə̯/, /pəˈdjɔː/, /pɜː-/
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- (General American) IPA(key): /pɚˈdʊɹ/, /pɚˈdɚ/
- Hyphenation: per‧dure
Verb
perdure (third-person singular simple present perdures, present participle perduring, simple past and past participle perdured)
- (intransitive) To continue to exist, last or endure, especially for a great length of time.
- 2008 July 11, Edouard Machery, “A Plea for Human Nature”, in Philosophical Psychology, volume 21, number 3, London: Routledge, , page 327:
- 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.
- (intransitive, philosophy) To exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism).
Derived terms
French
Verb
perdure
- inflection of perdurer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
perdure
- inflection of perdurar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Verb
perdure
- inflection of perdurar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
perdure
- inflection of perdurar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative