Persevering

Definition: Persevering

Persevering

Adjective

1. Quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business".

Date "persevering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Persevering

Synonym: diligent (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Perseverance	Adjective: persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging, undrooping; steady as time; unrelenting,
Resolution	Adjective: resolved; Verb: determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute; (brave); self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking; firm, iron, gritty, indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi; inflexible; (hard); obstinate; steady; (persevering) a.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Persevering

English words defined with "persevering": Chevalier d'industrie ♦ diligence, Diligency, diligent ♦ Imperseverant, industriousness, industry ♦ perseverance, Perseverant, perseveration, persistence. (references)

Specialty definitions using "persevering": Perseverance. (references)

Etymologies containing "persevering": Persevere. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	3 Steps Forward, 2 Steps Back: Persevering Through Pressure (reference) Biological Techniques: Collecting, Persevering, and Illustrating Plants and Animals (reference) Courage: Persevering in the Face of Fear (reference) No Substitute for Persevering (reference) Persevering Populist: The Life of Frank Doster (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Napoleon Bonaparte	Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The most curious were foiled by her silence, and the most persevering by her obstinacy.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. "Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl. "Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is -- where?" Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needless hike. His spirit a-squat in the grass and the dew Of the dogless Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. Sukker Uffro
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Time is wearing away some advantages for forwarding the object, while none better deserves the persevering attention of the public councils.
James Madison	1809-1817	On our southwestern border the Creek tribes, who, yielding to our persevering endeavors, were gradually acquiring more civilized habits, became the unfortunate victims of seduction.
James Monroe	1817-1825	This desirable result has been brought about by the humane and persevering policy of the Government, and particularly by means of the appropriation for the civilization of the Indians.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	We have seen under the persevering and enlightened enterprise of another State the waters of our Western lakes mingle with those of the ocean.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Persevering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Persevering" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	90%	18	82,615
Adjective (general or positive)	10%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

Expression using "persevering": persevering a. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "persevering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ngulmues (assiduous, insistent, persistent, pertinacious, plodder, urgency, urgent), këmbëngulës (assiduous, difficult, dogged, emphatic, exacting, insistent, lingering, patient, persistent, pressing, rebellious, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding, up and coming, urgent), i ngulur (intent, laid up). (various references)

Arabic		‏كاد (assiduous, diligent, intrigue, laborious, plot, scheme, sedulous), ‏مواظب (assiduous, diligent, painstaking, sedulous), ‏مثابر (painstaking, persistent), ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏دائب. (various references)

Bulgarian		устойчив (firm, resistant, rigid, settled, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sure footed, unswerving), упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, dogged, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, patient, persistent, pertinacious, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), неуморим (indefatigable, inexhaustible, tireless, unresting, untiring, unwearied, unwearing, weariless). (various references)

Chinese		坚持 (insist, Insisted, insistence, insisting, Persevere, Persevered, Persist, Persisted, persistence, Persistency, persistent, Persisting). (various references)

Finnish		sitkeä (dogged, sticky, tenacious, tough, viscous), hellittämätön (firm, insistent, persistent, untiring). (various references)

French		persévérant (persistent), tenace (persistent), obstiné (persistent, pertinacious, perverse), assidu. (various references)

German		beharrlich (importunate, importunately, insistent, insistently, persistent, persistently, single minded, steadfast, stolid, stolidly, unremitting, unwavering, unwaveringly), ausdauernd (Hardy, patient, patiently, perennial, perseverely, persistent, sustained, tenacious, untiring). (various references)

Greek		επίμονοσ (importunate, insistent, persistent, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious). (various references)

Hungarian		állhatatos (blue, consistent, consistent with, persistent, pertinacious, set, steadfast, steady, tenacious), kitartó (assiduous, constant, dogged, insistent, loyal, persistent, pertinacious, sustained, tough, unwavering). (various references)

Indonesian		telaten (painstaking, patient), gigih (persistent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		腰が強い (firm, flexible and hard to break), 粘り強い (persistent, tenacious), 根の良い (enduring), 忍耐強い (very patient). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ねばりづよい (persistent, tenacious), にんたいづよい (very patient), こしがつよい (firm, flexible and hard to break), こんのよい (enduring). (various references)

Korean		인내. (various references)

Manx		ladoosagh (economic, industrious, notable, successful, thrifty), jeadagh (assiduous, avid, diligent, prudent, sincere, tidy). (various references)

Pig Latin		erseveringpay

Portuguese		pertinaz (obstinate, pertinacious), persistente (dogged, evergreen, everlasting, insistent, lasting, obstinate, persistent, pertinacious, stiff necked, tenacious), perserverante, não ceder, insistente (insistent, pressing, punchy, shrill), constante (all-time, besetting, constant, continual, even, fixed, frequent, incessant, lasting, loyalist, permanent, persistent, stable, standing, steadfast, sustained, true blue, uniform, unremitting, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unwearying). (various references)

Romanian		perseverent (abiding, dogged, patient, perseveringly, seductive, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, unwearied, urgent), stãruitor (arduous, assiduous, constant, dogged, firm, instant, instantly, patient, perseveringly, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pleading, pressing, pushing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, trusty, urgent, zealous). (various references)

Russian		упорный (contumacious, die hard, dogged, hardbitten, indomitable, obstinate, patient, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		istrajan (assiduous, dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unremitting). (various references)

Spanish		perseverante (persistent, sedulous). (various references)

Swedish		trägen (assiduous, industrious, sedulous), ihärdig (assiduous, diligent, dogged, persistent, sedulous, tenacious). (various references)

Turkish		sebat eden, gayretli (arduous, as keen as mustard, assiduous, diligent, eager, fervent, full of pep, full of vim, hardworking, industrious, sedulous, strenuous, studious, vigorous, zealous), azmeden, azimli (Dauntless, dead-set on, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, flat-footed, full of zeal, hellbent, high pressure, militant, peppy, pertinacious, professional, resolute, resolved, set, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, stout, strong-minded, stubborn, sturdy, undeterred, zealous). (various references)

Turkmen		tutanяerli (persistent). (various references)

Ukranian		стійкий (dyed in the wool, fast, hard bitten, perseverant, persistent, resistant, resolved, rigid, steady, stout hearted, sturdy, vertebrate), наполегливий (aggressive, emphatic, emphatical, importune, insistent, obstinate, patient, perseverant, persistent, pressing, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, urgent). (various references)

Vietnamese		kiên trì; bền gan (perseverant), kiên nhẫn (forbearing, long-suffering, patient), bền chí (perseverant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pertinax. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "persevering": perseveringly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Persevering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perservering, preservering. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-i-n-p-r-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: peregrines, preserving.
	-2 letters: peregrine, peregrins, reprieves, reserpine, reserving, revengers, reversing.
	-3 letters: energies, energise, epergnes, greenier, greenies, grievers, peregrin, perigees, perverse, preeners, prerinse, preserve, regreens, renegers, repiners, reprieve, reseeing, resigner, respring, revenger, revenges, reveries, revering, ripeners, severing, speering, springer, veneries, verniers.
	-4 letters: enviers, epergne, epigene, erepsin, eserine, eveners, greener, greenie, greisen, griever, grieves, gripers, inverse.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-i-n-p-r-r-s-v"
	+2 letters: perseverating, perseveringly.
	+4 letters: progressiveness.
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