perseverance
nounEtymology
From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia.
- derived from persevērantia
- derived from perseverance
- inherited from perseveraunce
Definitions
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.
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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