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Word Meanings - PERPETUATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. Sir T. Browne.

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  • GUARDIANSHIP
    The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
  • CONSERVATIONAL
    Tending to conserve; preservative.
  • CONTINUITY
    the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
  • RETROSPECTIVE
    1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. Pope. 2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective
  • SUCCESSION
    1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
  • KEEP
    k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
  • CONTINUATION
    1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay. 2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries
  • PROTECTIONIST
    One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
  • DURATION
    The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.
  • KEEPER
    1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
  • RECOLLECTION
    1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
  • SUCCESSIONIST
    A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
  • PROLONGATION
    1. The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction. Bacon. 2. That which forms an additional length.
  • EXTENSIONIST
    One who favors or advocates extension.
  • EXTENSION
    That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space. (more info) 1. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
  • PERPETUATION
    The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. Sir T. Browne.
  • PRESERVATION
    The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
  • CONTINUANCE
    1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii.
  • KEEPERSHIP
    The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
  • MAINTENANCE
    An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap. (more info) 1. The act of maintaining; sustenance;
  • INCONSEQUENCE
    The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
  • RECONTINUANCE
    The act or state of recontinuing.
  • SAFE-KEEPING
    The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
  • OBDURATION
    A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
  • OUTKEEPER
    An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
  • DISCONTINUITY
    Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
  • INNKEEPER
    An innholder.
  • UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
    The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
  • UNREMEMBRANCE
    Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.
  • COEXTENSION
    The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
    The keeper of a pound.
  • INEXTENSION
    Want of extension; unextended state.
  • DELTA CONNECTION
    One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
  • MISCONTINUANCE
    Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process.
  • PERDURANCE; PERDURATION
    Long continuance.

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