Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PER'MA-NENCE, or PER'MA-NEN-CY, n. [See Permanent.]

1. Continuance in the same state, or without a change that destroys the form or nature of a thing; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of a government or state; the permanence of institutions or of a system of principles.
2. Continuance in the same place or at rest.