All 3 Uses of
perpetuate
in
The House of Mirth
- It could not be that one conscious of such aptitudes for mastery and enjoyment was doomed to a perpetuity of failure; and her mistakes looked easily reparable in the light of her restored self-confidence.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- The sublimities, the perpetuities, might have left him as he was: but this tent pitched for a day's revelry spread a roof of oblivion between himself and his fixed sky.†
Chpt 2.1
- She felt an intense longing to prolong, to perpetuate, the momentary exaltation of her spirit.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(perpetuate) to cause to continue