perseverance

noun
/ˌpɜːsəˈvɪəɹəns/UK/ˌpɝsəˈvɪɹəns/US

Etymology

From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia.

  1. derived from persevērantia
  2. derived from perseverance
  3. inherited from perseveraunce

Definitions

  1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous…

    Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at perseverance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at perseverance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at perseverance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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