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Definition of Persist in

1. Verb. Do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop. "The landlord persists in asking us to move"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Persist In

Literary usage of Persist in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"Persist, in French persister, Latin persisto, is compounded of per, through, ... Continue is comparable with persevere and persist in the neuter sense, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"the education of the child easier, will make it vastly more difficult, because it will then be necessary to teach the old system, which will persist in use, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"... sequestration mat may be moved for as of course; and if, after personal service of this order nui, the defendant persist in his contempt, the order for ..."

4. Improvement of the Understanding: Ethics and Correspondence of Benedict de by Benedictus de Spinoza (1901)
"Therefore, in so far as it can, and in so far as it is in itself, it endeavors to persist in its own being. QED PROP. VII. ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1885)
"Exudation cells still persist in the cutaneous tissue, and even pigmentation, though the clinician cannot detect with the eye any evidence of the disease. ..."

6. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"It does now appear to me that there is a fair prospect in future of ample patronage for both academies, and that we have only to persist in an honorable and ..."

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