lasting

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.”

   “hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.”

   “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 […]”

   “I knew that nought was lasting, but now even Change grows too changeable, without being new:”

2. (obsolete)Persisting forever.

   “I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.”

   “Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of last

noun

1. (countable, historical, uncountable)In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
2. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)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 […]”

   “But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]”