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perˈsistive, a.
[f. persist v. + -ive.]
Characterized by persisting, tending to persist.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 21 The protractiue trials of great Ioue, To finde persistiue constancie in men. 1757Home Douglas ii, For chance and fate are words: Persistive wisdom is the fate of man. 1896Q. Rev. Oct. 354 The King's plan was of no effect against his persistive constancy.
Hence perˈsistively adv., perˈsistiveness.
1847J. Sheppard Life J. Foster II. 500 These evils ought to be boldly and persistively exposed. 1864A. Leighton Myst. Leg. Edinburgh (1886) 238 Persistiveness draws, as it were, a power from the wearing out of resistiveness. |