Perseverance

Alternative forms

• perseveraunce archaic

Full definition of perseverance

Noun

1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
2. Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
• 2004, Chris Wallace (journalist), Character: Profiles in Presidential CourageIt had taken nine years from the evening that Harry 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.

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• persevere
• perseverant