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.
present participle and gerund of last
In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
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The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
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.