permanently

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝmənəntli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːmənəntli/
• (colloquial or dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ)məntli/
• Hyphenation: per‧ma‧nent‧ly

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permanently (comparative more permanently, superlative most permanently)

1. In a permanent manner; lastingly.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 63:

     We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

2. Forever.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:

     Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]

• temporarily
• transiently

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