Noun
The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Richard Dawkins
Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race. Bernard Bailyn
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. Arthur Schopenhauer
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. Daniel Webster
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. Henry Miller
That was the evil of Dr. Bertram Waters: the perpetuation of hopeless dreams, compounded by the betrayal of those dreams to make his own a reality. George Alec Effinger