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Perdure

Perdure \Per*dure"\ (p[~e]r*d[=u]r"), v. i. [L. perdurare; per through + durare to last.] To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting. [Archaic]

The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a thousand lines.
--Hickok.

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perdure

vb. 1 to endure; especially for a great length of time 2 (context philosophy English) to exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism)