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self-perpetuating
[ self-per-pech-oo-ey-ting, self- ]
adjective
- continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
- capable of indefinite continuation.
self-perpetuating
adjective
- (of machine, emotion, idea, etc) continuing or prevailing without any external agency or intervention
Other Words From
- self-per·petu·ation noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-perpetuating1
Example Sentences
Long-term unemployment isn't special just because it's longer; it's special because it's self-perpetuating.
In war and in peace, inevitable, self-perpetuating economies arise around the smuggling of illicit goods.
Independent voters increasingly see both parties as captives of corrupt, self-serving and self-perpetuating political machinery.
The pendulum swing of politics has a funny way of self-perpetuating.
Coatesville, PA, has had 50 fires in 15 months, providing a frightening case study in how arson can turn self-perpetuating.
He regarded the plan as chimerical, but it has been realized by a self-perpetuating association of Jesuits living at Brussels.
The nature of habit is to be assertive, insistent, self-perpetuating.
By tyrannical forethought, the Usurpation not only fortified all that it did, but assumed a self-perpetuating energy.
The somatoplasm can only in the most general way affect the self-perpetuating, close corporation of the germ-plasm.
The body was self-perpetuating and very careful to maintain its respectability in the election of new members.
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