trustworthiness; righteousness, uprightness, goodness, purity, impeccability; veracity, probity, truthfulness; conscientiousness, scrupulousness, honor, fidelity, faithfulness.
5. cliff, precipice, crag, bluff, rocky eminence; scarp, escarpment, incline, tor, spine, ridge, headland.
perpetrate, v. 1. (all of crime or wrong) commit, perform, execute, Inf pull off; effect, effectuate, succeed in, mastermind, make happen; accomplish, carry through, Sl. knock off, Sl. polish, expedite.
2. (all of pranks or deception) carry out, act, enact, actuate, practice, transact, bring about; pursue, exercise, produce, work out, discharge, Inf. put over.
perpetration, n. (all of wrongdoing) execution, performance, enactment, carrying out, exercise, practice; action, proceeding, doing; undertaking, enterprise, job, commission, production.
perpetual, adj. 1. everlasting, eternal, Literary. sempiternal, never-ending; permanent, perdurable, long-lived, longevous; immortal, deathless, undying, preserved; timeless, ageless, dateless, infinite; lasting, indestructible, imperishable, perennial; unchanging, durable, unvarying, evergreen; immutable, undevia-ting, abiding, enduring, lasting, inviolate; inveterate, chronic, confirmed, habitual, longstanding.
2. incessant, constant, unending, ever-flowing, persistent, longlasting; continuous, uninterrupted, unin-termitting, never-stopping, unbroken, marathon, around the clock; rhythmic, recurrent, nonstop, repeated; ceaseless, endless, unending, unceasing, interminable, nonterminable; unfailing, sustained, unstopped.
perpetually, adv. 1. everlastingly, eternally, sempiternally, never-endingly; immortally, undyingly, deathlessly, timelessly, agelessly, infinitely, datelessly; permanently, perdurably, indelibly; in perpetuity, always, Latin, in saecula saeculorum; lastingly, enduringly, abidingly, immutably; ever, evermore, ever and anon, Poetic, ay, Poetic, for ay; for good, for good and all, for always, for ever and a day, till the end of time, world without end, time without end; Inf. till the cows come home, Sl. till hell freezes over, Latin, ad infinitum; all the time, all along, perennially, invariably; unfadingly, indestructibly, imperishably; forever, forever and forever, forever and a day, to the end of time, till doomsday, till the end of recorded time.
2. constantly, continuously, incessantly, unremittingly, longlastingly; unceasingly, ceaselessly, without cease, uninterruptedly, unvaryingly, without break, without letup; unendingly, interminably, without end, without stop; steadily, regularly, unfailingly, unbrokenly; rhythmically, recurrently, repeatedly, persistently; day in and day out, year in and year out; morning, noon, and night; night and day, day and night, at all hours, every minute, every hour, at every minute of the day, around the clock.
perpetuate, v. memorialize, immortalize, eternalize, eternize, put down in history; preserve, sustain, maintain, keep, keep up, save, conserve; continue, extend, protract.
perpetuation, n.memorialization, immortalization, eternalization, eternization; preservation, maintenance, sustenance, conservation, keeping, saving; continuance, continuation, protraction, extension, prolongation, lengthening.
perpetuity, n. endlessness, forever, all time, eternity, sempiternity; constancy, durability, perdurability; permanence, everlastingness, ceaselessness, never-endingness; timelessness, coeternity, endless duration; continuity, continuance, perennialness; successiveness, consecutiveness, repetitiveness.