adv. Forms: 4 lastenlyche, lestendliche, 4–5 lastandly, 5 Sc. lestandly, 4– lastingly. [f. LASTING a. + -LY2.] In a lasting manner; continually, enduringly, permanently, perpetually, persistently.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter xxvi. 13. I sall seke þi face lastandly til my ded.
1389. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 45. Lestenliche for to fyndyn … on candelle.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 60. Wynter and somer þat God hauys lastandly stabyled of cold and hete.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, VIII. 659. Thocht he refusyt it [the croun] lestandly to ber.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Tracts, 15. So to incorporate wine and oil that they may lastingly hold together.
1749. Wesley, Jrnl., 14 April. Some … were deeply and lastingly affected.
1798. Mad. D’Arblay, Lett., March. I have escaped offending lastingly the Royal Mistress I love and honour.
1856. Miss Bird, Englishw. in Amer., 273. Kindness which should make my recollections of Quebec lastingly agreeable.
1860. J. F. Thrupp, Introd. to Ps., II. 65. It would seem as though in them were lastingly perpetuated that olden hatred wherewith their forefather Esau had hated Jacob.
