It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mothers door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
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persévérance — [ pɛrseverɑ̃s ] n. f. • 1160 « continuité d un état de choses »; lat. perseverantia ♦ Action de persévérer, qualité, conduite d une personne qui persévère. ⇒ constance, entêtement, insistance, obstination, opiniâtreté, 1. patience, ténacité,… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Perseverance — may refer to: Perseverance (solitaire), a card game Perseverance (born 1977), American fighter Brock Lesnar Perseverance (steam locomotive) Perseverance was the name of the steam boat built by John Fitch and successfully demonstrated in 1787 on… … Wikipedia
perseverance — Perseverance. s. f. Qualité de celuy qui persevere. Perseverance dans le travail. cela demande une grande perseverance. c est une perseverance loüable. il a obtenu cet employ par sa longue perseverance. une grande perseverance dans l oraison,… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Perseverance — Студийный альбом … Википедия
Perseverance — Per se*ver ance, n. [F. pers[ e]v[ e]rance, L. perseverantia.] 1. The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun. The king becoming graces . . . perseverance,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
perseverance — (n.) mid 14c., from Fr. persévérance (12c.), from L. perseverantia, from perseverantem, from perseverare (see PERSEVERE (Cf. persevere)) … Etymology dictionary
perseverance — I noun application, backbone, constancy, continuance, continuation, determination, devotion, diligence, doggedness, endurance, firmness of purpose, indefatigableness, industry, intransigency, obduracy, obduration, obstinacy, patience, persistence … Law dictionary
perseverance — [n] diligence, hard work backbone*, constancy, continuance, cool, dedication, determination, doggedness, drive, endurance, grit*, guts*, immovability, indefatigability, moxie*, persistence, pertinacity, pluck*, prolonging, purposefulness,… … New thesaurus
perseverance — Perseverance, Pertinacia, Patientia, Perseuerantia, Permansio … Thresor de la langue françoyse
perseverance — [pʉr΄sə vir′əns] n. [OFr < L perseverantia < perseverans, prp. of perseverare: see PERSEVERATE] 1. the act of persevering; continued, patient effort 2. the quality of one who perseveres; persistence 3. in Calvinism, the continuance in grace … English World dictionary
persévérance — (pèr sé vé ran s ) s. f. Qualité de celui qui persévère. • La persévérance n est digne ni de blâme ni de louange, parce qu elle n est que la durée des goûts et des sentiments qu on ne s ôte et qu on ne se donne point, LA ROCHEFOUC. Max. 177.… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
