Persevere
[pɜːsɪ'vɪə] or [,pɝsə'vɪr]
Definition
(verb.) be persistent, refuse to stop; 'he persisted to call me every night'; 'The child persisted and kept asking questions'.
Editor: Samantha--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Persist, be steady, be steadfast, be constant, go on, keep on, hold on, keep one's coarse, keep one's ground, maintain one's ground, stick to it, not give it up, stand firm, stand fast, move heaven and earth, go through fire and water, go all lengths, stick at nothing.
Checker: Zachariah
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Persist, insist, continue, keep_on, be_steadfast, hold_out,[See CONTINUE]
Typist: Penelope
Definition
v.i. to persist in anything: to pursue anything steadily: to be constant: not to give over.—n. Persevē′rance act or state of persevering: continued application to anything which one has begun: a going on till success is met with.—adj. Persevē′ring.—adv. Persevē′ringly.—Perseverance of saints the Calvinistic doctrine that those who are effectually called by God cannot fall away so as to be finally lost.
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Examples
- The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- What has happened in the schoolroom encourages me to persevere in the investigation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had all the disposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- She found that he did mean to persevere; but how he could, after such language from her as she felt herself obliged to use, was not to be understood. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- How should I be able now to persevere in any path without your companionship? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In that intent John Rokesmith will persevere, as his duty is. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It made him so very unhappy, indeed, that it could not be persevered in. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I persevered, however, to the end, and as soon as I reached it, boldly asked the one important question-- What is your opinion, Mr. Kyrle? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One girl alonequite in the background, persevered in the riot with undiminished energy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Miss Ophelia still persevered in her labors in the housekeeping line. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And yet you might have been a wealthy man if you had only persevered. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Miss Bingley, however, was incapable of disappointing Mr. Darcy in anything, and persevered therefore in requiring an explanation of his two motives. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Crawford's is no common attachment; he perseveres, with the hope of creating that regard which had not been created before. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly--persevering, self-reliant, self-denying! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- On Miss Lucas's persevering, however, she added, Very well, if it must be so, it must. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But for his having been so patient and persevering for so long a time, we never could have hoped to do anything worth speaking of. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I will be cool, persevering, and prudent. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He is a superb little fellow, especially in his caps, and most especially in the one you sent him, you good, dainty-fingered, persevering little lady! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Let me hope that you will rescind that resolution about the horse, Miss Brooke, said the persevering admirer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Rufus