permansion

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin permansio, from the participle stem of permanere.

Noun

permansion (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Permanence.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17:

     from female unto male, from male to female again, and so in a circle to both, without a permansion in either.

   • Bishop John Pearson

     Can we think that such material and mortal, that such inunderstanding souls, should be furnished with bodies of so long permansion, and our spirits joined to flesh so suddenly dissolvible, were it not that they lived but once […]

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