lastings

Noun

lasting (countable and uncountable, plural lastings)

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

   Synonyms:

   everlasting

2. (shoemaking) The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
3. (obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
   • 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...1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334

   Synonyms:

   continuance, duration, endurance

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