perennity

English

Etymology

Latin perennitas.

Noun

perennity (usually uncountable, plural perennities)

  1. The quality of being perennial.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Derham to this entry?)
    • 1972, John Bowman, editor, Comparative Religion: The Charles Strong Trust Lectures 1961-1970‎:
      But these phenomena remain a proof, albeit in reverse, of the perennity of the mystical quest.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for perennity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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