Perseverance
[pɜːsɪ'vɪər(ə)ns] or [,pɝsə'vɪrəns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; 'his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun.
(n.) Discrimination.
(n.) Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism.
Editor: Oswald
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Steadiness, persistence, persistency, constancy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Examples
- So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I never dreamed a man could have such patience and perseverance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In short, but for such perseverance as I have seldom witnessed, I had never placed myself under his protection. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had a great deal of difficulty in forming a company to finance it, but he was a man of much perseverance, and at length he succeeded. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She was ever remarkable for her perseverance, for her industry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was one of those people who can bear a great deal of pleasure, and she never flinched in her perseverance in the cause. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In the case of my misguided aunt, the form which pious perseverance was next to take revealed itself to me plainly enough. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Community of study and amusement developed the best parts of his character, his steady perseverance, generosity, and well-governed firmness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You have been so brotherly as to propose to me to fall in here and take my place among the products of your perseverance and sense. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We continued our systematic survey of the edge of the sodden portion of the moor, and soon our perseverance was gloriously rewarded. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They were the years of patience and perseverance, which must come in the life of every great inventor to test his strength. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They are but secrecy, fidelity, and perseverance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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