Associations to the word «Preservation»

Wiktionary

PRESERVATION, noun. The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

Dictionary definition

PRESERVATION, noun. The activity of protecting something from loss or danger.
PRESERVATION, noun. The condition of being (well or ill) preserved.
PRESERVATION, noun. A process that saves organic substances from decay.
PRESERVATION, noun. An occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope