verb
definition
To make perpetual; to preserve from extinction or oblivion.
definition
To prolong the existence of.
Examples of perpetuating in a Sentence
Besides perpetuating the strife with his enemies he was alienating his friends, and finding it increasingly difficult to pay his mercenaries.
Why they ought to be important is usually because they add to the sum of human happiness, rather than perpetuating misery.
Together we repent the sin of perpetuating our division.
Can so many people truly be perpetuating a hoax across the span of centuries?
This can reduce the negative self-talk which may be perpetuating your sour mood.
The enormous quantities of Roman coins may be accounted for by consideration of the well-known practice of the Romans to make these imperishable monuments subservient towards perpetuating the memory, not only of their conquests, but also of those public works which were the natural result of their successes in remote parts of the world.
This is merely another way of perpetuating the mistake of allowing the notion of determination by an other or a preceding to continue to dominate us in a region where we have in reality passed from it to the notion of determination by self or by self-acknowledged ideals.
The latter had a bias against Papias on account of the influence which his work had in perpetuating, through Irenaeus and others, belief in a millennial reign of Christ upon earth.
His conclusions, rather than finding support for integration, portrayed it as supporting the existing ethnic division and perpetuating social inequality.
All three were of signal service in devoting their knowledge of Greek to perpetuating and popularizing the Greek classics with the aid of the newlyinvented art of printing.
On each succeeding anniversary of that day, with the prevalent desire of perpetuating a feud, the citizens marched out to Cullenswood with banners displayed - "a terror to the native Irish."
There may be room for dispute, as to the extent to which the king's share in the schism was due to the instigation of the revolted cardinals; there can be not the slightest doubt that his attitude was the decisive factor in perpetuating and widening the breach.
The friars, by perpetuating medieval conditions in a country that was now being opened to contact with the civilized world, increased the feeling of discontent.
He strongly condemned the metayer system, then widely prevalent in France, as "perpetuating poverty and excluding instruction" - as, in fact, the ruin of the country.
The action of the Convention in perpetuating its influence by the imposition of two-thirds of its members on the next popularly elected councils, aroused a storm of indignation in Paris, where the "moderate" and royalist reaction was already making headway.
If a child is not corrected fully and continues to have blurred vision, the eye may elongate in response to blur, perpetuating the myopia.
This difference in educational experiences often leads to lower lifetime incomes, thus perpetuating the cycle for the next generation.
The blogosphere lit up, accusing Beyonce of perpetuating negative stereotypes about genders and the relationships between men and women.
Italian groups and New Jersey residents alike took offense to the behavior of the cast on the show and worried that the enormously popular MTV reality show was perpetuating negative stereotypes.
From the minds of sound designers to your personal electronic device, they are perpetuating the Star Trek mystique.