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perdured

perdured is the simple past and past participle of perdure.

Meaning of perdure

Verb

perdure (third-person singular simple present perdures, present participle perduring, simple past and past participle perdured)

  1. (intransitive) To continue to exist, last or endure, especially for a great length of time.
    • Saying that a trait has an evolutionary history is to say something stronger than the fact that it has perdured across generations. Humans have probably believed that water is wet for a very long time, although this belief has no evolutionary history.2008 July 11, Edouard Machery, “A Plea for Human Nature”, in Philosophical Psychology, volume 21, number 3, London: Routledge, →DOI, page 327
  2. (intransitive) To exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism).

Questions about perdured

What is perdured the simple past and past participle of?
Perdured is the simple past and past participle of perdure.

Words near perdured in the dictionary

  1. perdurantist
  2. perdurantists
  3. perdurants
  4. perduration
  5. perdure
  6. perdured
  7. perdures
  8. perduring
  9. perduringly
  10. perdus
  11. perdy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perdured (page history and authors); perdure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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