lasting

Etymology

adj

1. Persisting for an extended period of time.
   After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.
   I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.
   Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […] 1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture, London: John Chantry, act V, page 63
   Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted. 1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 34, in The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 311
   Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons. April 29, 2012, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
2. (obsolete) Persisting forever.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of last

noun

1. (obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
   1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334, But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.
   […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […] 1651, John Donne, Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, dedicatory epistle
2. A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes.
3. The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.