LASTINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lastingly mean? 

• LASTINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb LASTINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in an enduring or permanent manner

  Familiarity information: LASTINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LASTINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an enduring or permanent manner

Pertainym:

permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

 Context examples 

His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman,—but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair, and that every threatening cloud would be drawn off from their hills; and the two girls set off together.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)