lasting

adj
/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/UK/ˈlastɪŋ//ˈlæstɪŋ/US

Definitions

  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.
  2. Persisting 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.
  3. present participle and gerund of last

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. In full lasting cloth

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

    2. The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.

    3. The action or state of persisting

      The 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 […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lasting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at lasting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at lasting

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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