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persevered
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: persevere)
Usage examples of "persevered".
Yet the body of the people, both in Syria and Egypt, still persevered in the use of their national idioms.
But the spirit of Arsenius still survived in a powerful faction of the monks and clergy, who persevered about forty-eight years in an obstinate schism.
Imagined items took a long time to form, but when they did, they had more substance, and persevered longer.
But she had persevered while the world slowly choked on its own paranoia.
As the townsmen still continued to make an obstinate resistance, and even, after losing the greatest part of their forces by drought, persevered in their resolution: at last the veins of the spring were cut across by our mines, and turned from their course.
He persevered however in his resolution, and retired a little from that place to abate the enemy's fears.
But of these, the ship on board of which he was, persevered itself, and continuing its flight, and by the aid of the wind got out of sight: the other two, affrighted by the approach of our galleys put back again into the harbor.
But, Miss Crawford persevered, and argued the case with so much affectionate earnestness through all the heads of William and the cross, and the ball, and herself, as to be finally successful.
Would he have persevered, and uprightly, Fanny must have been his reward -- and a reward very voluntarily bestowed -- within a reasonable period from Edmund's marrying Mary.
Nothing, however, was allowed to divert them from their ostensible object of making a survey of the coast of the Mediterranean, and accordingly they persevered in following that singular boundary which had revealed itself to their extreme astonishment.
And when Isaac, undaunted by his jeers, persevered in besetting him with questions, he tried to silence him by saying, "Only wait till the governor general comes.
Day and night he persevered in his astronomical pursuits, declared his intention of never abandoning his comet, and swore positively that nothing should induce him to set foot in the car of the balloon.
He knew that strange things could happen to travelers under the double moons, but he ' persevered until both moons had set and the darkness forced him to seek refuge under the trees, where he'd be safely hid if he slept and dawn came before he knew.