0 continuing for ever in the same way:
1 continuing forever, or happening all the time:
She resented his perpetual complaining about her cooking.
They lived in perpetual fear of being discovered.
2 used to describe a bond or other investment that pays interest for ever:
Until recent decades, a woman who had a failure of ovulation was doomed to perpetual barrenness.
Seen in this light, parties are by definition dynamic organizations in perpetual transformation, and religious parties are no exception.
One of the characteristics of the discourses to be constructed under such a system is the production of "perpetual spirals of power and pleasure".
The capital stock is derived by the perpetual inventory method.
Every sound is in essence an ephemeral entity, possessing nothing perpetual but our memory of it.
If this is true, doing theatre signifies interrupting our perpetual performance.
The investigations into the security of the burrow are marked by their structural unreliability, by a perpetual folding of opposites into another.
Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant.
