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perpetuate Verb [-ating, -ated] to cause to continue: images that perpetuate stereotypes of Blacks as illiterate, happy-go-lucky entertainers [Latin perpetuare to continue without interruption] perpetuation n
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perpetuate verb maintain, preserve, sustain, keep up, keep going, continue, keep alive, immortalize, eternalize << OPPOSITE end see see, perpetrate Translations perpetuate [pəˈpɛtjueɪt] perpetual vt [+ custom, belief etc] → bewahren [+ situation]; aufrechterhalten How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Certainly vain-glory helpeth to perpetuate a man's memory; and virtue was never so beholding to human nature, as it received his due at the second hand. |
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