| / English Dictionary |
PERSEVERING
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
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)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
