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▪ I. perseverance|pɜːsɪˈvɪərəns|
[a. F. persévérance (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. persevērāntia steadfastness, constancy, perseverance, f. persevērānt-em: see next and -ance. Formerly (pəˈsɛvərəns): see Note to persevere.]
1. The fact, process, condition, or quality of persevering; constant persistence in a course of action, purpose, or state; steadfast pursuit of an aim; tenacious assiduity or endeavour.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxvi. 8 Loke þat þe ese of ill stire not þe fra perseueraunce. c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 44 Biddeth ek for hem that ben at ese, That god hem graunte ay goode perseueraunce [rime plesaunce]. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1094 With Vertew hys rerewarde came Good Perseueraunce [rime dysplesaunce]. 1557N. T. (Genev.) Eph. vi. 18 Watch thereunto with all perseuerance [Wycl. bysynesse, Tindale instance and supplication]. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. iii. 150 Perseuerance, deere my Lord, Keepes honor bright; to haue done, is to hang Quite out of fashion. 1671Milton P.R. i. 148 Job, Whose constant perseverance overcame Whate're his cruel malice could invent. 1796Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 400 There is nothing which will not yield to perseverance and method. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxii, They kept on with unabated perseverance. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. viii. v, Perseverance which hardened into obstinacy.
b. transf. of things: Persistence.
1866Grove Addr. Brit. Assoc. in Corr. Phys. Forces (1867) 321 If species be said to be a perseverance of type incapable of blending itself with other types.
†c. Remaining, abiding (in existence). Obs.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp., Places them..in vessels..for present use or perseverance, till occasion serves.
2. Theol. Continuance in a state of grace leading finally to a state of glory.
final perseverance, perseverance of the saints: the doctrine that those who are elected to eternal life, justified, adopted, and sanctified, will never permanently lapse from grace or be finally lost: one of the ‘Five points of Calvinism’, and thus stated in the Westminster Confession of Faith xvii. §1: ‘They whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved’.
a1555Bradford Let. to Traves in Foxe A. & M. (1583) 1663/1 The perseuerance of Gods grace, with the knowledge of his good will, encrease with you vnto the ende. 1562T. Norton tr. Calvin's Inst. Table s.v., A confutation of the most wycked error, that Perseuerance is geuen of God according to the Merit of men. [Cf. Calvin Inst. ii. v. §3 Ipsa perseverantia donum Dei est; transl. by Norton, Contynaunce yt selfe ys the gyfte of God.] 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. ii. 54 Nor helpes it those Who perseverance of the Saints oppose. 1751Wesley Wks. (1872) X. 291 The Apostle was at that time fully persuaded of his own perseverance. 1852Hook Ch. Dict. (1871) 579 According to the Calvinistic system, the elect receive the grace of perseverance, so that when grace has once been received, they cannot finally fall away from it.
▪ II. perseverance, -aunce
obs. ff. perceiverance. |