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The quality or state of being perpetual; endless duration; uninterrupted existence.uncountable
- The gnomic belief that the world is conditioned by love is no idle apothegm. Love, as the instrument of creative agencies and cosmic perpetuity, is no banausic conception.
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Something that is perpetual.countable
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A limitation intended to be unalterable and of indefinite duration; a disposition of property which attempts to make it inalienable beyond certain limits fixed or conceived as being fixed by the general law.countable
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An annuity in which the periodic payments begin on a fixed date and continue indefinitely.countable
syn. eternity