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Durability

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:16:02

Du`ra*bil"i*ty, n. [L. durabilitas.]

The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.

A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.

 

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