Definitions for Perpetual
pərˈpɛtʃ u əlper·pet·u·al

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.8 / 4 votes

1. ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasingadjective

   continuing forever or indefinitely

   "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"

2. ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremittingadjective

   uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

   "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. perpetualadjective

   Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time

2. perpetualadjective

   Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration

3. perpetualadjective

   Continuing uninterrupted

4. perpetualadjective

   Flowering throughout the growing season

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Perpetualadjective

   Etymology: perpetuel, Fr. perpetuus, Latin.

   1. Never ceasing; eternal with respect to futurity.

   Mine is a love, which must perpetual be,
   If you can be so just as I am true. Dryden.

   2. Continual; uninterrupted; perennial.

   Within those banks rivers now
   Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train. John Milton.

   By the muscular motion and perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot.

   3. Perpetual screw. A screw which acts against the teeth of a wheel, and continues its action without end.

   A perpetual screw hath the motion of a wheel and the force of a screw, being both infinite. John Wilkins, Math. Magick.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. perpetual

   Perpetual is an adjective that describes something as never ending, everlasting, or continual. It refers to something that is infinite or indefinitely long in duration, often occurring repeatedly or constantly. The term can be used in various contexts, such as a perpetual motion machine in physics, which operates indefinitely without an energy source, or a perpetual calendar, which covers all possible arrangements of dates.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Perpetualadjective

   neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Perpetual

   per-pet′ū-al, adj. never ceasing: everlasting: not temporary.—adv. Perpet′ually.—Perpetual curate, a curate of a parish where there was neither rector nor vicar, the tithes being in the hands of a layman—abolished in 1868, every incumbent not a rector now being a vicar; Perpetual motion, motion of a machine arising from forces within itself, constantly kept up without any force from without; Perpetual screw, an endless screw. [Fr. perpétuel—L. perpetuus, continuous.]

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How to pronounce Perpetual?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Perpetual in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Perpetual in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Perpetual in a Sentence

1. Linda Shockley:

   As with many African Americans cemeteries of this time, there were no perpetual care funds in place, it was the tradition for families to picnic near the graves of their ancestors and maintain care.

2. Antonio Gramsci:

   If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

3. Alexis de Tocqueville:

   ... above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood...

4. Charles Peguy:

   The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

5. George Dennison Prentice:

   What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Perpetual
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Perpetual
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Perpetual
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Perpetual
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Perpetual
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Perpetual