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Definition of Perseverating
1. perseverate [v] - See also: perseverate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perseverating
Literary usage of Perseverating
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)
"It may, indeed, be true that all the recurrences of a perseverating process ...
As a matter of fact, at one time I made a record of my perseverating tunes ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"(b) perseverating ideas from recent experiences. ... (c) perseverating reaction
words, and to a less degree perseverat- ing stimulus words, but not those ..."
3. 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 (1913)
"He starts to raise it but the right follows and he lifts both legs in the air,
perseverating as he did in the above test. Now examiner pinches the left leg. ..."
4. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"owing purely to the perseverating influence of the preceding reaction, and even
when this itself shews none. 8. Uncommon Style of Reaction. ..."
5. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"... to track properly and plays a record groove over and over until it is nudged
into continuing to play the remainder of the record. Many perseverating ..."
6. The Psychology of Functional Neuroses by Harry Levi Hollingworth (1920)
"FUNCTIONAL NEUROSES flashing out at each "land" of the feet. Here it seems obvious
that a faintly perseverating ..."
7. Studies in Spiritism by Amy E. Tanner (1910)
"while perseverating all the way from adolescence to senescence, maintain the same
general type, but are attracted and modified by real acquaintances in ..."
8. New Classic Poems: Contemporary Verse that Rhymes : an Anthology / Compiled by McAlister, Neil Harding, 1952-, Day, Jonathan (2005)
"The children rage as angry as Godzilla, perseverating as they whine and shout.
A cry ascends from beach to seaside villa, "The only thing that's left is ..."
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