1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke iii. 33 b. He that hath throughly conceiued the fyer of charitee & loue vnperishable.
1664. Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., II. vi. 366. The unperishable nature of the Soul.
1677. Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 23. The Moneys will be lent … upon unperishable Commodities.
1712. Spect., No. 537, ¶ 7. A contemplation on the unperishable part of his nature.
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., ¶ 93. The stone here … was … unperishable by the effects of weather.
1824. Godwin, Hist. Commw., I. 425. A king … has an unperishable advantage over a popular assembly.
1858. Birch, Anc. Pottery, II. 396. The glyptic and graphic arts only exist in their later forms as exercised on unperishable materials.
Hence Unperishableness.
1648. Jenkyn, Blind Guide, 48. This position … of a simple and absolute unperishablenesse.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 679. The spirituality and unperishableness of the soul.
