The Collaborative International Dictionary
Persisting \Per*sist"ing\, a. Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
Persist \Per*sist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Persisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Persisting.] [L. persistere; per + sistere to stand or be fixed, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. persister. See Per-, and Stand.] To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.
If they persist in pointing their batteries against
particular persons, no laws of war forbid the making
reprisals.
--Addison.
Some positive, persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so.
--Pope.
That face persists.
It floats up; it turns over in my mind.
--Mrs.
Browning.
Syn: See Persevere, and Insist.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of persist English)
WordNet
adj. relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit; "impossible to escape the dogging fears" [syn: dogging]
Usage examples of "persisting".
The tree or mountain being groups of phenomena, what we assert as persisting independently of the percipient mind is a something which we are unable to condition either as tree or as mountain.
When they then stimulated the perforant pathway with a train of electrical impulses, at the rate of 10-100 per second for up to 10 seconds, they found an extraordinarily long-lasting increase in the firing of the hippocampal neurons of the dentate gyrus, persisting for up to ten hours.
In the event of the two people persisting in their resolution, they would after this minimum interval signify as much to the local official and the necessary entry would be made in the registers.
And once again, the idea of destruction - of life persisting, of life continuing, of life fighting on in the midst of all this destruction - seems to pull me towards an understanding of a basic truth, as yet unclear to me.
In the corridor an angry rumour of voices, alarmed calls and cries, with thumps and scuffles of hasty feet, in the bedchamber the shrieks persisting without the least hint of failing: as a damned soul might bawl upon its bed of coals .
I supposed that he was persisting in his efforts to create a female-if he is anything he is persistent.