Imperishable

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Not perishable; not subject to decay; enduring permanently..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not perishable; not subject to decay; enduring permanently.
2. (in the plural) something that does not perish, or keeps for a long time

Example Sentences

an imperishable monument

The child was to be a prophet, unrivalled among men, and the parent of an imperishable race.

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.'

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