“Perdurable” (pur-DUR-uh-bul) – from the Latin for “endure” – means very durable, lasting a long time.
Example (as used by John Romano in The New York Times): “The idea of a classic [novel] is historically bound up with the view… that there are certain perdurable human truths and values, immune from geographical or historical vitiation.”
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