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)

1. (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, →DOI, 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.

2. (intransitive, philosophy) To exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism).

Derived terms

• perdurability
• perduringly

French

Verb

perdure

1. inflection of perdurer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• dépurer

Galician

Verb

perdure

1. inflection of perdurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

perdure

1. inflection of perdurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

perdure

1. inflection of perdurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative