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persist
/pɚˈsɪst/
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What does persist mean?
verb
- To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
- To repeat an utterance.
- To continue to exist.
More meanings (2)
verb
- To cause to persist; make permanent.
- (obsolete) To continue to be; to remain.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɚˈsɪst/
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See this word in context.
While it will persist in living under almost any circumstances, I have found no variety that responded more gratefully to good treatment.
In any case, such contractions do not persist very long, for tiny clots form within the blood vessels and effectually close them.
More book examples (3)
Until then, I persist in regarding my work as useful, social, full of instruction for public officials,--worthy, in short, of reward and encouragement.
He accordingly forbade the quartering of the imperial soldiers in his territories, and announced his firm determination to persist in his warlike preparations.
The endeavour, wherewith everything endeavours to persist in its own being, is nothing else but the actual essence of the thing in question.