Persistence
[pə'sɪst(ə)ns] or [pɚ'sɪstəns]
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Persistency
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Perseverance.[2]. Obstinacy, contumacy, doggedness, stubbornness, perverseness, pertinacity, obduracy, headiness, pig-headedness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PERSEVERANCE_and_PERISHABLE]
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Examples
- It is not a passionate quarrel that would have broken my heart; it is the steady opposition and persistence in going wrong that he has shown. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- By a great amount of persistence I got permission from my mother to go on the local train as a newsboy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Where an activity takes time, where many means and obstacles lie between its initiation and completion, deliberation and persistence are required. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And the course is all the clearer from there being no salary in question to put my persistence in an equivocal light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She had burnt her fingers with Caliphronas; yet, quite forgetful of the warning, began to tease Maurice with charming persistence. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Nevertheless, with a stupid sort of persistence, he went on for a time with this Eastern scheme. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The democratic culture must, with critical persistence, make man the measure of all things. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These devices were essentially toys, depending for their successful operation (as is the case with motion pictures) upon a physiological phenomenon known as persistence of vision. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His persistence and profound conviction of the ultimate results were so strong and his arguments so sound, however, that the campaign was entered upon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was unwilling to do it, not having very much money just then, but his persistence was such that I raised the money and gave it to him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Public affairs govern our thinking and doing with subtlety and persistence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The foundation principle upon which these moving pictures exist is that of persistence of vision. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Hermione appeared, with amazing persistence, to wish to ridicule him and make him look ignominious in the eyes of everybody. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Had he betrayed injudicious emotion, perhaps obstinate persistence in silence would have been the result; but he looked calm, strong, trustworthy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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