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PERSEVERING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
Example:
with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business
Synonyms:
diligent; persevering
Classified under:
Similar:
patient (enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb persevere
Context examples:
I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly—persevering, self-reliant, self-denying!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The effect of the whole was a manner so pitying and agitated, and words intermingled with her refusal so expressive of obligation and concern, that to a temper of vanity and hope like Crawford's, the truth, or at least the strength of her indifference, might well be questionable; and he was not so irrational as Fanny considered him, in the professions of persevering, assiduous, and not desponding attachment which closed the interview.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
