perdurable

[prettygoodword]

perdurable (per-DYOOR-uh-buhl) - adj., extremely durable, long-lasting; (theol.) eternal.


There's also a rather rare verb form, perdure, which honestly sounds a little odd to me. This is an old one -- Chaucer uses it in the Parson's Tale, in the theological sense -- but it's the sort of Latinism that came in during Middle English rather than Old English: it dates from the early 1200s, from Anglo-Norman pardurable, from the Medieval Latin perdūrābilis, from Latin perdurāre, from per-, throughout (here an intensifying prefix) + durare, to last (ultimately from PIE *dweh₂-, far/long).

---L.

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[full_metal_ox]

This ties into one of Aleister Crowley’s numerous Magickal Names, “Perdurabo”—“I will endure.” (It was the thing in Golden Dawn circles for one’s alias to be a lofty motto/statement of intent in a foreign language, usually Latin: Dion Fortune, née Violet Firth, derived her pen name from “Deo non fortuna”—“God, not luck.”)

Here’s a roll call: https://www.tarrdaniel.com/documents/Thelemagick/gd/publication/english/golden_dawn_titles.html

[prettygoodword]

Crowley would do that.

[full_metal_ox]

Any Everready Bunnyesque innuendo no doubt being fully intentional.