persevering

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per·se·vere

(pûr′sə-vîr′)

intr.v. per·se·vered, per·se·ver·ing, per·se·veres

To persist in or remain constant to a purpose, idea, or task in the face of obstacles or discouragement.

[Middle English perseveren, from Old French perseverer, from Latin persevērāre, from persevērus, very serious : per-, per- + sevērus, severe; see segh- in Indo-European roots.]

per′se·ver′ing·ly adv.

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Adj.

persevering - quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business"

diligent

patient - enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance; "a patient smile"; "was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient scientist"; "please be patient"

Translations

hartnäckig

persevering

[ˌpɜːsɪˈvɪərɪŋ] ADJ → perseverante, tenaz

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

persevering

[ˌpɜː^rsɪˈvɪərɪŋ] adj → persévérant(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

persevering

adj, perseveringly

adv → ausdauernd, beharrlich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

persevering

[ˌpɜːsɪˈvɪərɪŋ] adj → perseverante, assiduo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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And this she attributed to a want of sufficient firmness, and diligent, persevering care on my part.

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This was harder work than turning up the freshly excavated earth at the grave, but Tarzan of the Apes was persevering and so he kept at his labor until he was rewarded by seeing a hole sufficiently deep to receive the chest and effectually hide it from view.

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This persevering enemy the president of the Gun Club had never seen.

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She would be respectable and happy; and Emma admitted her to be the luckiest creature in the world, to have created so steady and persevering an affection in such a man;or, if not quite the luckiest, to yield only to herself.

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Her persevering and patient love seemed completely to surround the countess every moment, not explaining or consoling, but recalling her to life.

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As we take much interest in the novel enterprise of this eastern man," and are pleased with his pushing and persevering spirit; and as his movements are characteristic of life in the wilderness, we will, with the reader's permission, while Captain Bonneville is breaking up his camp and saddling his horses, step back a year in time, and a few hundred miles in distance to the bank of the Bighorn, and launch ourselves with Wyeth in his bull boat; and though his adventurous voyage will take us many hundreds of miles further down wild and wandering rivers; yet such is the magic power of the pen, that we promise to bring the reader safe to Bear River Valley, by the time the last horse is saddled.

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However, by persevering questions I elicited the following facts:

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It has more than once happened, that the deficiencies had to be ultimately collected at the point of the bayonet; a thing practicable, though dreadful, in a confedracy where one of the members exceeds in force all the rest, and where several of them are too small to meditate resistance; but utterly impracticable in one composed of members, several of which are equal to each other in strength and resources, and equal singly to a vigorous and persevering defense.

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They are quite true," returned Celia, who had her reasons for persevering, though she was beginning to be a little afraid.

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Ferrars has suffered from his family; for if I understand the matter right, he has been entirely cast off by them for persevering in his engagement with a very deserving young woman.-- Have I been rightly informed?--Is it so?--"

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Greater things than the Doctor had at that time to contend with, would have yielded before his persevering purpose.

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Gore was proud, ambitious, and persevering. He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.

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