What's the difference between perdure and verdure?
Perdure
Definition:
(v. i.) To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Part III synthesized the emic and etic accounts with explanations for the perdurance of 'wind illness' despite the advances of biomedicine and the recent fertility decline in Northern Thailand.
(2) In the change, professional growth in manifested; in the continuity, the perdurable essence of nursing.
(3) Perdurance of the fat+ gene product in mitotic recombination clones allows the formation of a few infertile eggs from fat homozygous germ-line cells.
(4) We introduce the term "perdurance" to designate the persistence of a cellular developmental fate for several cell generations after the loss of the genetic basis for that cellular development.
(5) Neurological examination and laboratory tests have always been normal but for a large perduring asymmetry at the Cortical Auditory Evoked Response.
(6) The other substances showed ovicidal and molluscicidal activity only at 100 and 1000 ppm concentrations, causing a significant cardiac frequency reduction in snails after 6 to 24 hours of exposure as well as perduring low cardiac rates until 24 hours afterwards.
(7) It is speculated that the observed reduction in Cli may have been independent of cirrhosis per se, owing to the perduring cytotoxic effect of CCl4 as evidenced by the higher than normal level of transaminases in female rats.
(8) It is also very useful to advise the family on the life organization at home in order to perdure, on the legal safeguards, on whether or not the patient should be institutionalized, and similar topics.
(9) We discuss gender-specific obstacles that Job overcomes in attaining wisdom by analyzing modern interpretations of the text, which underscore its perdurance in a post-modern age.
Verdure
Definition:
(n.) Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.
Example Sentences:
(1) A procedure for the production of biologically active substances from pine and spruce needles was worked out within the research project Utilization of Tree Verdure.
(2) The physiologic state of residents, looking for recreation in these places, was better in an environment of ample verdure.