Crossword clues for persevere
persevere
- Keep working hard
- Hang in there
- Continue to be harsh on saleswoman in recession
- Continue steadfastly
- Continue in the face of difficulty, for every Spartan
- Continue despite difficulties
- Carry on to each extreme
- Exercises Rex finds demanding? Struggle on!
- Keep going, intrinsically gripping always
- Keep going south, always in custody of Nancy's dad
- Steadfastly continue
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Persevere \Per`se*vere"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Persevered; p. pr. & vb. n. Persevering.] [F. pers['e]v['e]rer, L. perseverare, fr. perseverus very strict; per + severus strict, severe. See Per-, and Severe.] 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.
Thrice happy, if they know
Their happiness, and persevere upright.
--Milton.
Syn: To Persevere, Continue, Persist.
Usage: The idea of not laying aside is common to these words. Continue is the generic term, denoting simply to do as one has done hitherto. To persevere is to continue in a given course in spite of discouragements, etc., from a desire to obtain our end. To persist is to continue from a determination of will not to give up. Persist is frequently used in a bad sense, implying obstinacy in pursuing an unworthy aim.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Persevere is the fourth studio album by The Proclaimers, released in 2001 on their own label Persevere Records, as a comeback album after seven years of low profile. It was recorded in Minneapolis and produced by Chris Kimsey. The album's first single featured "There's a Touch", "A Land Fit for Zeros" and "They Really Do" (not included in the album).
Usage examples of "persevere".
This attack was commenced by the ladies, but it was continued throughout the dinner by the fat-headed old gentleman next the parson with the persevering assiduity of a slow hound, being one of those long-winded jokers who, though rather dull at starting game, are unrivalled for their talents in hunting it down.
By quietly persevering in sustained nonthinking meditative attentiveness, we come to a new groundedness within ourselves.
Few men in Paris possessed that accurate knowledge of its intricate passages and its network of cells and halls which de Batz had acquired after close and persevering study.
Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, who hath vouchsafed to choose you to an espousalship like that of the blessed Mary, mother of our Lord, Jesus Christ - ad beatae Mariae matris Domini nostri Jesus Christ consortium - hallow you, that in the presence of God and of His angels, you may persevere, untouched and undefiled, and hold to your purpose, love, chastity, and keep patience that you may merit to receive the crown of His blessing, through the same Christ our Lord.
De Montaigne could have made no man rash, but he could have made many men energetic and persevering.
The consciousness of that melancholy truth inspires a degree of persevering fury, seldom to be found in those civil wars which are artificially supported for the benefit of a few factious and designing leaders.
But I thought she would have disapproved a mesalliance with a tinker even more than my tarradiddles, and so I persevered.
Let the Negro be patient, persevering, philosophical, thrifty, self-respecting and far-seeing.
Still he had persevered, and a set of understrappers around him, who would make nothing out of the election without his candidature, assured him from time to time that he would even as yet come out all right at the ballot.
John Adams was also, as many could attest, a great-hearted, persevering man of uncommon ability and force.
The Vandals and the Ostrogoths persevered in the profession of Arianism till the final ruin of the kingdoms which they had founded in Africa and Italy.
Without any surprise at my appearance, which was, indeed, no worse than his own, he told me that I was in the Vale of Chianti, between Certaldo and Poggibonsi, and that if I persevered upon the road I saw before me I should reach the latter place by nightfall.
Hard work, a persevering attitude toward marriage, regular churchgoing, and a good wife had taken him to the number-two management position at the arsenal.
Jacobites has persevered for ages to cast stones against his sepulchre, and to propagate the foolish tradition, that it was never watered by the rain of heaven, which equally descends on the righteous and the ungodly.
Even if the situation becomes pressing and you have to withdraw from Hamamatsu to Okazaki, I hope you will persevere.