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Definition of Perseverate
1. Verb. Psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus. "The subjects in this study perseverated"
Derivative terms: Perseveration
Definition of Perseverate
1. Verb. describing the behavior, generally displayed by those with various developmental disabilities, of extraordinary, exclusive and lasting obsession to a detail or occurrence others consider minor. ¹
2. Verb. to repeat or continue a pattern. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perseverate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perseverate
Literary usage of Perseverate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Movement and Mental Imagery: Outlines of a Motor Theory of the Complexer by Margaret Floy Washburn (1916)
"When young children are made the subjects of association experiments, they show
a tendency for the same reaction word to perseverate, because the smallness ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"... tend to perseverate. The face, waxen and corpselike, remains an impassive and
inscrutable mask. The voluntary muscles are somewhat rigid but by ..."
3. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"... aderire ; — to it! perseverate! — through, passare da banda a banda ; — upon,
restare, rima- nere. -Iness, s. ..."
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