perduring

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).