imperishable
nounEtymology From Middle French impérissable. See im- + perishable.
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In plural something that does not perish, or keeps for a long time
imperishable
adjEtymology From Middle French impérissable. See im- + perishable.
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Not perishable; not subject to decay; enduring permanently.
- an imperishable monument
- The child was to be a prophet, unrivalled among men, and the parent of an imperishable race.1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 127:
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- Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, courtier, statesman and poet, was born at Penshurst in 1554. He won imperishable fame 32 years later at the Battle of Zutphen in Holland when, mortally wounded, he refused a drink of water and passed his flask to a wounded soldier, with the words: 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 313:
- Derived terms
- imperishableness, imperishably