Durate

Quick meaning: Durate is a verb meaning (uncommon, chiefly philosophy) To have, or last for, some duration (of time).

Meaning

(uncommon, chiefly philosophy) To have, or last for, some duration (of time).

Example Sentences

Fear is often found associated with the uncertainty of doubt and with the durating sense of strangeness that characterize a well-developed state of marvel.

Simply because a sentence of, say, ten words necessitates a time period, e.g. 5 seconds, i.e. it durates. The formal description of English during a given period will result in what English is.

"Perception of time duration is always a process and never a state — for us to perceive five seconds, something must durate five seconds, for us to perceive a year some definite sensation would have to durate a year."

But in the same way as we shall say of our simple creature that he perceives his sensation when it exists at all, and that he perceives time when it (the sensation) durates at all, 80 we shall say he perceives a certain definite[…]

Word Forms

• durates
• durating
• durated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dure, endure, last, perdure, abide, dree.

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