perseverance
See also: persévérance
English
Alternative forms
- perseveraunce (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɜːsəˈvɪəɹəns/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɝsəˈvɪɹəns/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹəns
- Hyphenation: per‧se‧ve‧rance
Noun
perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)
- Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perseverance
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence
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Middle French
Etymology
From Old French perseverance.
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