perpetuating

Verb

perpetuate (third-person singular simple present perpetuates, present participle perpetuating, simple past and past participle perpetuated)

1. (transitive) To make (something) perpetual; to make (something) continue for an indefinite time; also, to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion.
   • I am contented to contynue it for my tyme, but to perpetuate it lyeth nat in my power.1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement

   Synonyms:

   eternalize, eternize, immortalize

   1. (transitive) To record (the testimony of a witness) which may be lost before a matter comes to trial.
      • If vvitneſſes to a diſputable fact are old and infirm, it is very uſual to file a bill to perpetuate the teſtimony of thoſe vvitneſſes, although no ſuit is depending; for, it may be, a man's antagoniſt only vvaits for the death of ſome of them to begin his ſuit. This is moſt frequent vvhen lands...1768, William Blackstone, “Of Proceedings in the Courts of Equity”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book III (Of Private Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 450
2. (transitive) To prolong the existence of (something) by repetition; to reinforce.
   • He who praiseth obscurity perpetuateth it.1852, Moses Stuart, “Introduction”, in A Commentary on the Book of Proverbs, New York, N.Y.: M. W. Dodd, […], →OCLC, § 17 (Specimen of Arabic Proverbs), paragraph 64, page 116

   Synonyms:

   continue

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