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English
Etymology
From Middle French impérissable. See im- + perishable.
Pronunciation
Adjective
imperishable
- Not perishable; not subject to decay; enduring permanently.
an imperishable monument
1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 127:The child was to be a prophet, unrivalled among men, and the parent of an imperishable race.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 313: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.'
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
imperishable (plural imperishables)
- (in the plural) something that does not perish, or keeps for a long time
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “imperishable”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “imperishable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.