Both Uses of
perpetual
in
Brave New World
- The President of the Internal and External Secretions Corporation was perpetually on the phone, and she had been to Deauville with the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Europe.†
p. 165..9 *
- The land wasn't properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories; the laws were set at naught, orders disobeyed; all the people detailed for a spell of low-grade work were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs, and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were.†
p. 223..6
Definition:
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(perpetual) continuing forever without change
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual