perpetuation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: per=pet=u=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

perpetuation, n. [Cf. F. perpétuation.].

 The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

perpetuation

continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, endurance, eternal re-creation, eternal return, eternalization, extension, immortalization, lengthening, maintenance, perseverance, persistence, preservation, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, pursuance, repetition, run, staying power, steady-state universe, straight course, sustained action, sustenance, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, way

ROGET THESAURUS

perpetuation

Perpetuity

N perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia, interminability, agelessness, everlastingness, perpetuation, continued existence, uninterrupted existence, perennity, permanence (durability), perpetual, eternal, everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever- flowing, continual, sempiternal, coeternal, endless, unending, ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing, endless, unending, interminable, having no end, unfading, evergreen, amaranthine, neverending, never-dying, never-fading, deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable, perpetually, always, ever, evermore, aye, for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever, in all ages, from age to age, without end, world without end, time without end, in secula seculorum, to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the 'last syllable of recorded time', till doomsday, constantly, esto perpetuum, labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum, but thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought, her immortal part with angels lives, ohne Rast ora e sempre.

Continuance in action

N continuance in action, continuance, continuation, run, perpetuation, prolongation, persistence, repetition, continuing, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting, unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried, sustained, undying, inconvertible, Int, keep it up!, go to it!, right away!, right on!, attaboy!, nolumus leges Angliae mutari, vestigia nulla retrorsum, labitur et albetur.