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perpetual Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 continuing for ever in the same way:
- They lived in perpetual fear of being discovered.
- He has hard, cold eyes and his mouth is set in a perpetual sneer.
- a perpetual student
- perpetual vandalism
1 continuing forever, or happening all the time:
- They lived in perpetual fear of being discovered.
- She resented his perpetual complaining about her cooking.
2 used to describe a bond or other investment that pays interest for ever:
- CP issued £88 million of perpetual bonds from 1889 onward.

Miles are walked in exchange for a feeling of perpetual defeat.
He views action in purely amoral and aesthetic terms as perpetual virtuosity.
Moreover, along with perpetual recycling of forms, delexicalization processes appear to start and stop and pick up again.
The majority of sentences were for perpetual imprisonment, but many of these were released a year or so later.
Therefore, forging a life annuity was capital, but forging a perpetual annuity was not.
Both efforts were internally contradictory and externally became the basis of perpetual conflict.
Now divine laws are perfect and perpetual, while human laws are unstable and in continual need of renewal.
Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant.