lasting

adjetivo

1. 1

   Persisting for an extended period of time.

   After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.

   I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.

   hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.

   Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]

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   obsoletoPersisting forever.

   I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.

   Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.

verbo

1. 1

   Também uma forma de lastpresent participle and gerund of last

substantivo

1. 1

   históricoIn full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.

2. 2

   The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.

3. 3

   obsoletoThe action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.

   […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]

   But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]

Formas

plural

lastings

comparativo

more lasting

superlativo

most lasting