lasting

Definitions

1. In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
   countable, historical, uncountable
2. The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
   countable, uncountable
3. The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334, But all things that haue beginning, must come⟳ to an end⟳, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change⟳, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience⟳ in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.”

“[…] 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⟳ […]”

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